met sint-juttemis

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Etymology

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Originally “met sint-juttemis als de kalveren op het ijs dansen”, meaning “on Saint Judith’s (17 August) when the calves dance on the ice”, clearly an impossible feat, it being summer.

Prepositional phrase

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met sint-juttemis

  1. (idiomatic) when pigs fly; never
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