If your auntie had balls...
I've inherited an interest in phrases of a similar theme,
expressing skepticism about a claim dependent upon too many conditionals,
from an old housemate.
I'm interested in more, please e-mail me
if you have any.
- If your auntie had balls, she'd be your uncle.
- common English phrase
- If my cow was a cat I could milk her by the fire.
- translated from Dutch
- If your grandmother had four wheels, you'd be a bus.
- translated from Spanish
- With a few ifs, you could put Paris in a bottle.
- French phrase.
- If you had tits and no cock, you'd be a woman.
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- If ifs and ands were pots and pans, you'd have a very nice kitchen.
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- If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?
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- If wishes were horses, I'd be eating wish-meat every night.
- Mo Sizlak's version (Simpsons S21E17)
Anarchy in development, tyranny in integration.
- Momchil Velikov
2010/11/28