2007-03-01 00:55:00 · 9 answers · asked by lonely05003 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
my uncle was a farmer. I remember askig him this question. He said that it takes a long time for the cows to come home from the pasture. So when his kids asked for something and he replied with this saying, he meant that they can have it in due time, eventually, when he gets around to it.
2007-03-01 01:00:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cows if given the chance will wander away and are unlikely to come back, so the expression means for a long time if ever.
2007-03-01 01:00:20 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
'till the cows come domicile which skill For an prolonged yet indefinite time. beginning Cows are notoriously languid creatures and make their way domicile at their very own unhurried %.. that's genuinely the imagery at the back of 'till the cows come domicile', however the real time and place of the coining of this colloquial word isn't user-friendly. It replaced into genuinely in the previous 1829 nevertheless, and could perhaps have been in Scotland. The word regarded in print interior the circumstances in January that year, while the paper reported a guideline of what the Duke of Wellington could desire to do if he had to maintain a place as a minister in Peel's cabinet: If the Duke will yet do what he genuinely can do, and propose a Catholic invoice with securities, he could properly be Minister, as they say in Scotland "till the cows come domicile." Groucho Marx replaced into on no account one to bypass up an hazard for a play on words and this occurs in his talk of the 1933 action picture Duck Soup: "i could desire to bounce with you till the cows come domicile. greater advantageous nevertheless, i'm going to bounce with the cows and you return domicile."
2016-09-30 01:29:28 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have pasture cows, then they don't come home, they stay in the pasture. Hence, if you have to wait till the cows come home then you're never going to get whatever it is that you want.
2007-03-01 12:48:14 · answer #4 · answered by KSGIRLGENIUS 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means to do some thing for a really long time
like saying you can cry until the cows come home the answer is still no
it really mean you can cry all you want the answer is still no
cows dont really come back if you let them run around on there own
2007-03-01 01:01:05 · answer #5 · answered by links305 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think cows are not very intelligent. when the farmer wants them to go to the pasture, he has to lead them there. it is also true when he wants them to go to the barn.if the farmer does not go collect up the cows, they will stay out in the pasture, they won,t come home. hope this answers your question. good luck. Mr C
2007-03-01 01:05:19 · answer #6 · answered by mister c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a farmers expression...it means very late in the day...when the cows want to be milked as all that milk in their udder is painful just like a guy with blue balls...ouch
2007-03-01 01:00:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i believe that since cows always come back to the barn[their home] to be milked, it means that you gotta wait awhile.
2007-03-01 01:03:03 · answer #8 · answered by closeinphilly 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it means, having to wait a very long time before things are being done..
basically in 'singlish' its "wait long long lor"
2007-03-01 02:30:27 · answer #9 · answered by project_vk_03 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋