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Hi,It is hard for me to understand.The meaning is needed for me to work. Thank you for your assistance.

KrisBlueNZ · Accepted Answer

"Tomorrow never comes" is a well-known English phrase. Strictly speaking, I think it means that "tomorrow" will never come, because when it's "tomorrow", that day will then be "today", and "tomorrow" will be the day after that.

I think it's used as a reply to "I'll do it tomorrow", to jokingly point out that "tomorrow" is a kind of an illusion, and that saying "I'll do it tomorrow" means that you might never do it. That's my interpretation of it, which may be wrong.

I think there's a Beatles song called Tomorrow Never Comes, and there's a Billy Joel song called Tomorrow Is Today. There's also the famous song that goes "Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow, you're only a day away".

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Hi KrisBlueNZ,According to your teaching, to say tomorrow is always based on [today] and it is always away from us. Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.-----------Matthew 6:34In these, we can find <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/26.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/26.gif' alt='Emotion: time'/> considered as being [interval] in which something exixts that is used in English. The [tomorrow] is a new day contains its own things, and the [tomorrow] we wish to contain the things for today never comes. Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. -------Proverbs 27:1

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