English Dictionary

if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle

ことわざ

口語 ユーモラス文体 卑語

(colloquial, vulgar, humorous) It is fruitless to speculate about counterfactual situations.

日本語の意味

実現不可能な仮定に基づく議論や思索は無意味であるという意味。 / あり得ない前提に基づく推測が果たしても無駄であると戒める表現。

When my friends started debating how things could have gone differently, I told them, 'if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.'

友人たちがどうなっていたかを議論し始めたとき、私は「たらればを言っても仕方がない」と言った。

意味（1）

(colloquial, vulgar, humorous) It is fruitless to speculate about counterfactual situations.

We would have won the match if we'd had a decent goalkeeper. And if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle!

if my aunt had balls （ canonical ）

she'd be my uncle （ canonical ）