never-never in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for never-never in the English»French Dictionary

never-never [Am ˌnɛvərˈnɛvər] N Brit inf

to buy sth on the never-never

acheter qc à crédit

never-never land N

never-never land

pays m imaginaire

to live in never-never land

ne pas avoir les pieds sur terre

never-never in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for never-never in the French»English Dictionary

pouf² [puf] N m Belg

pouf (dette):

pouf

debt

Phrases:

acheter à pouf (à crédit)

to buy on the never-never Brit

acheter à pouf (à crédit)

to buy on an installment plan Am

taper à pouf (deviner)

to guess

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

More importantly, it dispatches significant purchases we'd need to buy to meet that objective off into the never-never, with no guarantees for the future.

www.smh.com.au

As a state, we had become addicted to the never-never.

www.telegraph.co.uk

And they're in never-never land because they don't know what's going to happen.

www.independent.co.uk

But we can all have walk-on parts in the never-never-land production.

www.telegraph.co.uk

And the real cost was placed on the never-never.

www.irishexaminer.com

But then they weren't people who were accustomed to buying on the never-never, or gambling on blithe sales pitches.

www.odt.co.nz

Instead of being someone who's happy to wait around like a pudding for some never-never wedding, you'd be taking matters into your own hands and standing up for yourself.

www.independent.co.uk

We knew their stay would be finite, so the arrangement is not on the never-never.

www.stuff.co.nz

If you want to encounter a never-never land of the imagination, there's no better place than the market, the ineffable center of real-world power.

www.slate.com

Fifty-six others are in a never-never land, neither cleared nor charged.

www.chicagotribune.com