till/until the cows come home

idiom

informal

: for a very long time

They'll be arguing about this till the cows come home.

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Those two are going to argue bitterly about oysters until the cows come home. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024 As for autonomy, instead of robot rides aimed at taking us anywhere, the star of the show is likely to be John Deere’s self-driving tractor that promises to lighten the load on farmers by tilling the fields until the cows come home. —

Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2023

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