Common beginning or ending to a sentence. It can serve to:
1. provide an excuse for why one has not yet done something.
2. suggest a vague intention of doing something later (similar to how Spanish speakers use the word "mañana.")
3. add minimal credibility to an idea that is a pipe dream.
1. provide an excuse for why one has not yet done something.
2. suggest a vague intention of doing something later (similar to how Spanish speakers use the word "mañana.")
3. add minimal credibility to an idea that is a pipe dream.
1. There's no point in looking for a job until the economy picks up.
2. I'll start my business when the economy picks up.
3. Unemployment levels will go back down to the levels they were in the late 1990s when the economy picks up.
2. I'll start my business when the economy picks up.
3. Unemployment levels will go back down to the levels they were in the late 1990s when the economy picks up.
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Smedley: Yes. My wife is out of town. When the cat's away, the mice play golf.
Smedley: Yes. My wife is out of town. When the cat's away, the mice play golf.
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Get the When the moon shines, the cow pees mug.A devastating event in which your mother finds the sock that you use when you are out of toilet paper and you have to take a SHIT. The poop sock is a sock that you shit in when you dont have toilet paper
When mom finds the poop sock is exactly what it sounds like
John - Dude, my life is fucking over
Connor - Let me guess, your mom found the poop sock when you ran out of toilet paper again?
John - Dude, my life is fucking over
Connor - Let me guess, your mom found the poop sock when you ran out of toilet paper again?
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Get the when the corn is past it’s prime mug.An idiom used when people (mostly kids) mess around and sometimes abuse their leeway when someone in authority is not around. Used to describe disobedient people, like kids.
Person 1: Have you seen the kids in the classroom? Person 2: Yeah, the teacher ain't around and they're abusing their leeway. Person 1: Well that's a problem. When the cat is away the mice will play anyway.
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