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mill the wind; baste flints with butter; dawdle | |||
beat a dead horse | |||
carry coals to Newcastle | |||
beat the air |
толочь воду: 75 phrases in 9 subjects |
Disapproving | 4 |
General | 13 |
Idiomatic | 6 |
Informal | 1 |
Makarov | 10 |
Nonstandard | 1 |
Proverb | 35 |
Saying | 2 |
Slang | 3 |