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| like a squirrel in a cage; like a hamster on a wheel (Maria Klavdieva); like a hamster in an exercise wheel (Tom Clancy – Red Rabbit Alexander Demidov) | |||
| like a hamster in the spinning wheel (like the proverbial hamster in the spinning wheel trtrtr) | |||
| run round like a headless chicken (Аксёнова) | |||
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| run round in small circles | |||
| как белка в колесе: 20 phrases in 7 subjects |
| Figurative | 1 |
| General | 6 |
| Idiomatic | 4 |
| Informal | 3 |
| Makarov | 1 |
| Proverb | 2 |
| Slang | 3 |