до морковкина заговенья

Russian

Etymology

Literally, “until the carrot meat-fare day”, an oxymoron: in Eastern Orthodoxy, a meat-fare day is the day before a fast when one feasts on rich food of animal origin, not on carrots.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [də‿mɐrˈkofkʲɪnə zəɡɐˈvʲenʲjə]

Phrase

до морко́вкина за́говенья • (do morkóvkina zágovenʹja)

  1. (humorous) when pigs fly, never
    Synonyms: когда́ рак на горе́ сви́стнет (kogdá rak na goré svístnet), по́сле до́ждичка в четве́рг (pósle dóždička v četvérg)
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