English Explanatory Dictionary

Tib's Eve

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A supposed future time that will never arrive.

Word forms

Tib's Eve St. Tibb's Eve St. Tib's Eve Tibb's Eve

Etymology

After Tib (or Tibb), a fictional woman of loose morals in 17th-century English plays. Such a woman would not be a saint and so there was no Saint Tib and therefore no Tib's Eve.

Related words

Greek calends in the reign of Queen Dick when Hell freezes over when pigs fly
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