cows イディオム

talk until the cows come home

talk for a long time We can talk until the cows come home this weekend at the lake.

till the cows come home

for a long time, for days or weeks A letter from Dave? You'll be waiting till the cows come home!

until the cows come home

Idiom(s): (un)til the cows come home

Theme: LATENESS

until the last; until very late. (Folksy or informal. Referring to the end of the day, when the cows come home to be fed and milked.)
• We were having so much fun that we decided to stay at school until the cows came home.
• Where’ve you been? Who said you could stay out till the cows come home?

Til the cows come home

A long time.

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n., dialect A person who is behind others. John was the cow's tail at the exam. Fred was always the old cow's tail for football practice.

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adv. phr. Until sunset; until the last. The women in the country used to sit in the spinning room making yarn out of skeins of wool, usually till the cows came home.