like looking for a needle in a haystack
быть занятым бесполезными поисками, "искать иголку в стоге сена"
My son always misplaces things, so looking for his car keys that day was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Другие идиомы:
- like a bump on a log
- like getting blood out of a stone
- like lambs to the slaughter
- look like something the cat dragged in
- look like the cat that swallowed the canary
- like an open book
- like a bolt out of the blue
- like greased lightning
- like mad
- like taking candy from a baby
- like father, like son
- like a sitting duck
- look like death warmed over
- like water off a duck's back
- like two peas in a pod