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till the cow come home

till the cow come home is the alternative form of until the cows come home.

Meaning of until the cows come home

Phrase

until the cows come home

  1. (idiomatic) For a very long period of time.
    • Near-synonym: until one is blue in the face

Questions about till the cow come home

What is till the cow come home the alternative form of?
Till the cow come home is the alternative form of until the cows come home.

Words near till the cow come home in the dictionary

  1. till money
  2. till moneys
  3. till next time
  4. till point
  5. till points
  6. till the cow come home
  7. till the cows come home
  8. till time
  9. till we meet again
  10. till-tapper
  11. till-tappers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: till the cow come home (page history and authors); until the cows come home (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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