if the sky falls we shall catch larks
- if the sky falls we shall catch larks
‘In ridicule of those who talk of doing many things, if certain other things, not likely, were to happen’: Fielding, Proverbs of all Nations (1824) 22.
c 1445 Peter Idley’s Instructions to his Son (1935) I. 178 We shall kacche many larkis whan heuene doith falle.
1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs I. iv. B1v When the sky falth we shalhaue larks.
1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 143 If the sky falls we shall catch larks.
1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 343 What if the Lift [sky] fall, you may gather Laverocks [larks].
1914 G. B. SHAW Misalliance p. xxx. I cannot be put off by the news that our system would be perfect if it were worked by angels..just as I do not admit that if the sky fell we should all catch larks.
1950 C. S. LEWIS in Month Oct. 234 If..the total content of time were spread out before me..I could do what the Historicist says he is doing... Yes; and if the sky fell we should all catch larks.
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