never the twain shall meet
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the poem The Ballad of East and West.[1]
Phrase
[edit]- (idiomatic) Used to emphasize that two subjects are so different that they cannot coexist or agree with each other.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Rudyard Kipling (1889) “The Ballad of East and West”, in Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, published 1919: “Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, […]”