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When the sky falls we shall catch larks. A way of stating to a person that his scheme or proposal is absurd or ridiculous.
French: “Si le ciel tombait, il y aurait blen des alouettes.”
Latin: “Quid, si redio ad illes, qui aiunt, quid si nunc cœlum ruat?”
Terence: Heautontimoroumenbs, iv. 3; verse 41.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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