This week's theme: words related to calendar.

Greek calends (greek KAL-undz) noun, also Greek kalends

   A time that doesn't exist.

[From the fact that calends exist in the Roman calendar.]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "Let's hope your wife is on time, so the judge doesn't reschedule your
   divorce for the Greek calends."
   Antonio Lobo Antunes; The Inquisitors' Manual; Grove Press; 2004.

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