till the cows come home
For an eternity
Till the cows come home means for a very long time, indefinitely, or forever: You can argue till the cows come home, but I'm not changing my mind.
The phrase suggests futility or persistence without end.
Cows left to pasture return slowly and unpredictably, making their homecoming a measure of endless waiting.
- foreverFor all time
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
- perpetuityInfinite continuation of time
- ad infinitumTo infinity, limitlessly
- enduranceSustained effort capacity
wait forever · until the end · perseverance · stick it out · infinity · never ending · long time · unending · overstatement · aeons · timelessness · dramatization · ages · tenacity · embellishment · barnyard · farm animals · dairy farm
- farm idiomsmake hay while the sun shines, cream of the crop, put the cart before the horse, buy the farm, put out to pasture
- folk sayingsproverb, adage, maxim, folk saying, old saying
- Southern dialecty'all, fixin to, bless your heart, reckon, howdy
- eternityeternity, everlasting, eternal, timeless, perpetuity
duration
till the cows come homebriefly
In few words
for a moment · momentarily · fleetingly · in a flash · in no time
tills, tilled, tilling, tillage, tiller, cowherd, cowboy, comers, homely