It'll be a long day in January
It'll be a long day in January (when something happens).
Rur. Something will never happen. (There are fewer hours of daylight in January.) Tom: Maybe this will be the year that Mama treats herself to a nice vacation. Jane: Are you kidding? It'll be a long day in January when she does that! It'll be a long day in January when that car dealer gives an honest price.
See also: January, long
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- If that don't beat a pig a-pecking!
- if you've a mind to do
- whistlin' Dixie, you ain't just
- I swan!
- go at like a boy killing snakes
- have hung up and salted
- in an age of years
- howdy and a half
- I've done my do
- If it ain't chickens, it's feathers