by VoxOfReason January 21, 2016
French phrase meaning essentially, a combination of "when the time is right (for you to know)" and "when and where you will be mature enough (to know)".
son: Dad, who is Jerry Sandusky? I keep hearing on his name a lot lately on Fox News. And how is it possible for a coach to be accused of child sex abuse?
father: Oh. you'll learn en temps et lieux utiles. Now go sleep tight.
father: Oh. you'll learn en temps et lieux utiles. Now go sleep tight.
by Sexydimma June 23, 2012
by Scheize April 21, 2017
a) a Latin phrase meaning (original meaning): if the rationale behind a law fails, so should the law (i.e. it is potentially time to replace said law, since it may n o longer serve its intended purpose)
b) (my new and improved English translation of the phrase): a nicer way of saying " repeal and replace" old and possibly antiquated laws)
b) (my new and improved English translation of the phrase): a nicer way of saying " repeal and replace" old and possibly antiquated laws)
can cessat ratione legis, cessat et ipsa lex, definition b) be applied, or should it even be applied, to Obamacare?
by Sexydimma December 17, 2016
by Oofing Pooping April 07, 2018
Latin for "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries". (A quote from Monty Python's Holy Grail.)
Mater tua criceta fuit, -et pater tuo redoluit bacarum Sambucus!
by Arthur- King of the Britons August 03, 2011
by Cendrillon September 09, 2019