What are the opposite words for till the cows come home?

The phrase "till the cows come home" is an idiomatic expression used to refer to doing an activity for a long, indefinite period. Antonyms of this phrase include "briefly," "momentarily," "in a jiffy," "shortly," or "quickly." These words have the opposite meaning of "till the cows come home," indicating that the task will be done rapidly or within a specific time frame. For example, if someone asks how long it will take to finish a project, the answer might include one of these antonyms if the task can be completed quickly. Antonyms can be useful to use in contexts where exaggerating or extending the length of a task is not desired.

What are the antonyms for Till the cows come home?

• adj.

  • lasting
  • ephemeral
  ,
  • fleeting
  ,
  • impermanent
  ,
  • passing
  ,
  • short-lived
  ,
  • transient
  .

• adv.

  • forever
  • Ceasing
  ,
  • brief
  ,
  • ending
  ,
  • never
  ,
  • temporary
  .

Famous quotes with Till the cows come home

• If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

  Ridley Scott
• This poet is now, most of the time, an elder statesman like Baruch or Smuts, full of complacent wisdom and cast-iron whimsy. But of course there was always a good deal of this in the official rôle that Frost created for himself; one imagines Yeats saying about Frost, as Sarah Bernhardt said about Nijinsky: “I fear, I greatly fear, that I have just seen the greatest actor in the world.” Sometimes it is this public figure, this official rôle — the Only Genuine Robert Frost in Captivity — that writes the poems, and not the poet himself; and then one gets a self-made man’s political editorials, full of cracker-box philosophizing, almanac joke-cracking — of a snake-oil salesman’s mysticism; one gets the public figure’s relishing consciousness of himself, an astonishing constriction of imagination and sympathy; one gets sentimentality and whimsicality; an arch complacency, a complacent archness; and one gets Homely Wisdom till the cows come home.

  Randall Jarrell

Synonyms:

parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parrot, parrot, parakeet, paraquet, paroquet.