PIGS MIGHT FLY! (Mudpuddle Farm)

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Haylett, Trevor (June 4, 1993). "Tennis: Martina primed for revenge". The Independent . Retrieved May 13, 2009. This is my brand new book. And I thought it might be fun to read you a short excerpt from it, give you a flavour: The use of gnome to describe diminutive mythological creatures came later, in the early 18th century. And a century or so later, in the 1840s, the first ceramic garden gnomes made their appearance in German gardens.

Hindi - The common phrases are (1) सूरज पश्चिम से उगा है ("sun has risen from the west") and (2) बिन मौसम की बरसात ("when it rains when it's not the season to rain"). The second one is also used to denote something unexpected/untimely as much as improbable. Flying pigs appeared in print in the UK quite often throughout the rest of the 19th century. The Illustrated Times referred to them in an issue in August 1855: But other sources, most notably the usually reliable phrases.org.uk, find much earlier references - the earliest being John Withals' English-Latin dictionary, A Shorte Dictionarie for Yonge Begynners (1616): "Pigs fly in the ayre with their tayles forward." Welsh - Traditional idioms meaning "never" are: tan ddydd Sul y pys ("till two Sundays come together") and pan fydd yr Wyddfa’n gaws ("when Snowdon is made of cheese"). More modern additions include pan fydd moch yn hedfan ("when pigs fly"), pan fydd uffern yn rhewi drosodd ("when hell freezes over") and pan fydd 'Dolig yn yr haf, a gwsberis yn y gaeaf ("when Christmas will be in the summer and goosberries in winter"). Rare events meaning "once in a blue moon" include: unwaith yn y pedwar amser ("once in the four seasons") and unwaith yn y pedwar gwynt ("once in the four winds").In Finnish, the expression " kun lehmät lentävät" (when cows fly) is used because of its alliteration. Czech – až naprší a uschne meaning "When it rains and dries". Another expression is až opadá listí z dubu ("When the leaves fall from the oak")

According to the book summary, readers can expect to be regaled with more outlandish schemes from Diddly Squat Farm – the sheep are gone, to be replaced with pigs and ‘psychopathic’ goats ­– while the cows have been joined by a bull named Break-Heart Maestro. Can his determination and ingenuity defy the laws of physics? Will crotchety Farmer Rafferty finally make peace with his neighbour, Farmer Brightwell? Can Albertine the clever goose keep Pintsize from hurting himself as he tries to fly? This delectable tale bills itself as the Further Adventures of Three Little Pigs … Fantastic details within the pictures and clever word play make this a great take on the three pigs story … Guaranteed to entertain.”Lombard ( Milanese dialect) – quand pìssen i òch ("when the geese will piss"), refers to the fact that geese, like other birds, do not pee. [ citation needed] As a response to an unlikely proposition, " when pigs fly", "when pigs have wings", or simply "pigs might fly". [1] Farmer, John Stephen; Henley, William Ernest (1904). "Tooth (Hen's teeth)". Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and Comparative, of the Heterodox Speech of All Classes of Society for More Than Three Hundred Years. With Synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, Etc. Vol.7. p.160.