Can you explain to me the expression: "When the fat lady sings"?

Answer 1

What everyone else said.

Answer 2

While it generally refers to opera in the minds of most people, it specifically refers to the Ring of the Niebelung cycle by Wagner, the fourth and final opera of which (Gotterdamerung) ends with the aria of Brunnhilde, a Valkyrie who fell in love with a mortal and dies at the end. This 18-hour opera cycle is the grandest of all operas and it really is not over until "the fat lady sings". THIS is the opera where Brunnhilde is typically a large German woman wearing a helmet with horns or, more properly, wings (since she is a Valkyrie). This is the ONLY opera where the women wear helmets with horns or wings.

Answer 3

When your team is losing bad and your bet is for $2000, you say
"it's not over till the fat lady sings."

You are trying to alter reality, begging Goddi/Gotti for a miracle. But there is no miracle--you lose and the fat lady belts out the worst junk you ever heard.

Answer 4

The expression is, "It ain't over until the fat lady sings." Say someone says to you, "I bet you I'm going to beat you at this game." You then say, "It ain't over til the fat lady sings," meaning, until the game is over, no one can say for sure who's going to win or lose. Get it?

Answer 5

the phrase refers to operas. most of the sopranos are larger wormen and most operas end with a soprano. its over when the fat lady sings

Answer 6

it's from the video-game toejam&earl, the fat lady (copied for the Niebelung's Ring) would kill all the enemies on the screen for two bucks.

Answer 7

Here is a site I found that talks about it. Hope this helps