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herding cats (Ex: Managing volunteers from fourteen different organizations is like herding cats. morganna); make clothes for fishes (Anglophile) | |||
roast snow in a furnace | |||
flog a dead horse (букв.: стегать дохлую лошадь) | |||
a cold coal to blow at (Bobrovska) | |||
drop a bucket into an empty well (дословно: Кидать ведро в пустой колодец); draw water in a sieve (дословно: Черпать воду решетом); pour water into a sieve; whistle jigs to milestone | |||
plough the sand; plough the sands |
решетом воду носить: 21 phrases in 6 subjects |
General | 3 |
Idiomatic | 5 |
Informal | 1 |
Makarov | 4 |
Proverb | 7 |
Uncommon / rare | 1 |