Flying Pig

Flying Pig

The phrase "when pigs fly" is an adynaton—a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility. The implication of such a phrase is that the circumstances in question (the adynaton, and the circumstances to which the adynaton are being applied) will never occur.

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Famous quotes containing the words flying and/or pig:

    “And now for something completely different.”
    —Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Catch-phrase, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus (TV series)

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