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if pigs had wings, they would fly

if pigs had wings, they would fly proverb: expresses skepticism toward a hypothetical argument by another.

Proverb

if pigs had wings, they would fly

  1. (colloquial) Expresses skepticism toward a hypothetical argument by another.
    • Asked by a reporter for The Chicago Tribune whether a conservative Christian college would risk its tax-exempt status by refusing to admit a legally married gay couple to married-student housing, Cass Sunstein, a constitutional scholar at the University of Chicago Law School who had not been at the...2006 June 10, Peter Steinfels, “Will Same-Sex Marriage Collide With Religious Liberty?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...

Forms of if pigs had wings, they would fly

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Words formed from if pigs had wings, they would fly

Questions about if pigs had wings, they would fly

What does if pigs had wings, they would fly mean?
If pigs had wings, they would fly means expresses skepticism toward a hypothetical argument by another.
What part of speech is if pigs had wings, they would fly?
If pigs had wings, they would fly is a proverb.

Words near if pigs had wings, they would fly in the dictionary

  1. if only
  2. if only the czar knew
  3. if only the tsar knew
  4. if pigs had wings
  5. if pigs had wings, they could fly
  6. if pigs had wings, they would fly
  7. if pigs had wings, they'd fly
  8. if possible
  9. if push comes to shove
  10. if so
  11. if so be

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