never the twain shall meet
Meanings
phrase
- Used to emphasize that two subjects are so different that they cannot coexist or agree with each other.
Word forms
Etymology
Coined by the English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) in his poem The Ballad of East and West (1889).
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