flying pig
Never going to happen
A flying pig is an impossible creature invoked to express disbelief or mark something as never going to happen.
The phrase appears most often in conditional constructions: I'll believe it when pigs fly, When pigs fly, maybe.
Something dismissed as requiring flying pigs is considered absurd or out of the question.
The image occasionally appears in art and logos as a symbol of defying expectations or achieving the impossible.
- airborneTraveling through air
- porcineOf or like swine
- impossibleIncapable of occurring
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
- miracleSupernatural occurrence beyond explanation
silver lining · wings · oink · snout · bacon · when · unlikely · absurd · dreamland · fairy tale · tall tale · whimsy · soaring · mythical · cartoon · pink · curly tail · trotter
- impossibilitiessquare circle, squared circle, perpetual motion, dividing by zero, logical paradox
- futilityfutile, futility, in vain, pointlessness, vain
- weather vane designsrooster, arrow, horse, eagle, compass rose
flying pigcertainty
Total absence of doubt
sure thing · reality · fact · inevitability · foregone conclusion
flying pigsitting duck
Defenseless person or thing
cash cow · sacred cow · dark horse · workhorse · guinea pig