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Until the Cows Come Home

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‘You can sit there and sulk until the cows come home but you will eat those greens!’ a scolding mother might tell her reluctant child. ‘Until the cows come home’ describes what feels like a very long time. The saying dates back to the sixteenth century, when the cows would spend the night grazing in the fields before returning to the milking parlour in the morning; the phrase is all the more graphic because it conjures up the leisurely pace cows take over whatever they do.

Bees Knees and Barmy Armies - Origins of the Words and Phrases we Use Every Day

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