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Apparently when a pig dies, as its carcass bakes in the sun, its little piggy lips actually begin to shrink back from its teeth producing a gruesome grin. If he actually does it, pigs may fly. The idiom when pigs fly (or pigs might fly, pigs may fly) is an example of an adynaton, which is a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole (exaggeration).
You put them on a airplane ! Where does the phrase when pigs fly or pigs might fly actually come from? Find out (sort of) in this bonus minisode of the animal nerd podcast! Show notes coming soonmore
