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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 |