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Discover LudwigThe phrase "When hell freezes over" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to express that something is highly unlikely or will never happen. Example: "I'll consider lending you my car when hell freezes over."
Idiom
When hell freezes over.
An impossible or very unlikely situation or event.
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The Eagles, whose manager once defiantly proclaimed that the band would get back together only "when hell freezes over," are working on a new album and starting an 80-date American tour in May.
The artificial reef which Gibraltar has created to protect its fleet from Spanish over-fishing – Spain claims all the water round Gibraltar – will be removed only "when hell freezes over", Picardo told reporters.
If you believe that the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street would only join forces "when hell freezes over," then start building your ark.
When hell freezes over is the answer; this means that this market will rise for much longer than most naysayers can stay solvent.
"As they say, when hell freezes over, I'll fight on the ice".
It had become something of a standing music-biz joke, akin to "when hell freezes over".
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"They could build until hell freezes over," she said during a daylong tour of failed developments.
Also, hopefully our darn BART train station will open before all hell freezes over!
When 30,000 Ecuadorian villagers sued Chevron in 1993 for devastating the Amazon with 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, the US-based oil giant's reply was simple: "We will fight [the lawsuit] until hell freezes over," said a representative.
MacBook Pro, MacBook Hell froze over a second time in 2006 when Apple began popping Intel chips — processors from what Mac-heads called the Dark Side — into its computer line.
And hell froze over.
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