that'll be the day

that'll be the day
{informal} That will never happen. * /Joe wanted me to lend him money to take my girl to the movies. That'll be the day!/ * /"Wouldn't it be nice if we had to go to school only one day a week?" "That'll be the day!"/

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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