Phrase guide

never in a month of Sundays

adv · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

At no time whatsoever.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: idiomatic, not-comparable

Examples

  • Never in a month of Sundays would I have imagined that you'd be this tall in real life!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

See month of Sundays.

Across languages

Translations

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: ei kuuna päivänä — at no time
  • French: la semaine des quatre jeudis — at no time
  • German: am Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag — at no time
  • Italian: mai e poi mai — at no time
  • Latin: ad kalendas Graecas — at no time
  • Luxembourgish: op Mokuchsdag — at no time
  • Norwegian Bokmål: aldri i evighet — at no time
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ikke på vilkår — at no time
  • Serbo-Croatian: na Sveto Nigdarjevo — at no time
  • Serbo-Croatian: kad na vrbi rodi grožđe — at no time
  • Serbo-Croatian: nikad, a možda ni tad — at no time