Everyone has probably heard this phrase at some point in their life. So where did it come from, and what does it mean?
Well, the meaning is quite simple: it's a time reference meaning "for a long time". So you'll party until the cows come home, for example.
The phrase itself is a farming phrase. You put cows out to pasture in the morning after they've been milked, and they come "back home" to the barn in the late evening to be milked again. So "until the cows come home" really just means "all day".
You think too much!
Brilliant!
Yup. Till the cows come home - till there's more work to be done - for however many hours till duty calls. That was complicated to figure out, how?
I didn't even grow up in cow-infested Minnesota (as opposite as you can get to it, in fact), and I knew that. :P
lol@Bren -- you think you're so smart eh? ;-) I knew what the phrase meant, but I wanted to know where it came from, I had a hunch, and it was right, and so I shared.
Yeah, sorry for sounding so arrogant about it. I was just giving you shit.
Your sister and mom were right, by the way. You totally, totally missed
your calling as a teacher. You could always do it, ya know!
I'd take you! ;)
LoL, and I was just giving you shit back. It's all good!