Earlier we were talking about cows and it reminded me of the French equivalent of the English until the cows come home, which means something is happening for a very long or indeterminate time.
And in French, the idiom is, or until a week with four Thursdays.
We’re going to do this radio show until a week with four Thursdays.
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