Based on the 11 hour 5 min match at Wimbledon featuring Nicholas Mahut (FRA) and John Isner (USA) where they played 138 games in the fifth set alone and where most records were completely shattered.
It refers to anything an event or oddity that will almost positively never happen again.

The strange disappearance of an entire civilized city in Mexico was a once a marathon match

Once a Marathon Match by akararules June 27, 2010

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Carpet Match the Drapes

Term used when someone is asking whether a person's pubic hair color matches the color of the hair on their head. This question is usually asked of a person with red hair.

Hey Charlie, I saw you went home with that cute redheaded chick from the bar last night. Did the carpet match the drapes?

Carpet Match the Drapes by Midnight310 August 16, 2011

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Match-Pump Approach

Hypocrisy or a hypocritical way of doing things. You cause some bad problems to occur, while making sure that nobody knows that you are the cause of them, and then come up solutions to them so that you will be seen as as a saviour by all around you, as if you set fire on something with a match yourself and pumped water onto it as a hero citizen, pretending that you happen to be there.

"I suspect it was John who made the car tyre flat, just before our driving trip last week. He did that probably so that he could come to the rescue in his car and impress all the girls like a hero. What a match-pump approach that was!"

Match-Pump Approach by Hiroicci July 24, 2014

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