Provençal expression

À cado còup, li toumbo un uei

Weather and Time

Literal translation

every single time, an eye falls out of him

Meaning

it never happens

Explanation

A way of saying something never happens, on the model of the impossible comparisons found in many languages, such as hens growing teeth. It is mostly used in a structure like every time he tells the truth, he loses an eye. The image of the lost eye recurs often in Provençal expressions to mark a flaw that ruins everything, like a beautiful girl missing an eye.

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avé bèu tèms, bello ouroto have all the time in the world duro que duraras, marcho que marcharasas long as it lasts, it lasts tua lou tèmsto kill time siéu dins mi cinq crousto be between forty and fifty years old un an dins l'autreone year with another, on average Agué lou bàti-bàtito have one's heart racing