That'll be the day

Learning English Conversations

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Learn a phrase about things that are unlikely to happen.

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak. I'm Jayink.
0:09.0	And I'm Neil. Hi Jayink. Have you seen any biscuits around here?
0:13.6	I'm really hungry.
0:14.8	No, sorry, there aren't any biscuits here.
0:18.2	Maybe you should try looking in the kitchen rather than in the meeting room.
0:22.0	Well, I'm only looking in here because Rob promised to leave some biscuits on the table.
0:27.0	Yeah, right. That'll be the day.
0:30.0	Oh, have I got the wrong day?
0:32.0	Did he say he would leave the biscuits on another day? I didn't miss them, did I?
0:37.3	No, Neil, calm down. I said, that'll be the day. We use this expression to say that we don't think
0:44.4	something will happen. I was trying to say that Rob would never leave biscuits.
0:49.3	He'd eat them. Ah that makes sense. Yes, Rob does like his biscuits.
0:54.0	I thought it was strange he was leaving some in the meeting room.
0:58.0	But what happened to them?
1:00.0	Well, we can talk more about this mystery after these examples.
1:05.0	He said he was finally going to apologize.
1:10.0	That'll be the day.
1:12.0	You think you're going to beat me at Monopoly? You never have and
1:17.3	never will. That'll be the day. I'm not speaking to her because she forgot my birthday again. That'll be the day when she actually
1:27.2	remembers.
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