英语词汇“as hard as herding cats”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to herd cats: used in similative expressions to suggest the unwieldiness or unfeasibility of an undertaking, esp. a managerial or organizational task, as like herding cats ( as hard as herding cats, etc.): extremely difficult to accomplish; unmanageable, futile.

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1986 National Jrnl. 3 May 1062 Yerxa will have to continue to juggle the divergent views of the subcommittee members, a task he said ‘can be like trying to herd cats’.

1988 MIS Q. 12 65 At a recent academic meeting, an academic administrator stated that managing an academic department was akin to herding cats.

1991 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 16 Sept. b1/2 Leading a group of lawyers through a difficult project can be ‘as hard as herding cats’.

1999 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 16 Feb. b5/1 Murphy this term is letting others preside, allowing them to get their feet wet at controlling the 180-person circus that is the General Assembly's House chamber. It's a feat not unlike herding cats.

2000 J. Alexander Command Performance xi. 243 Influencing Hollywood is a little like herding cats.

单词	as hard as herding cats
释义	> as lemmas as hard as herding cats transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to herd cats: used in similative expressions to suggest the unwieldiness or unfeasibility of an undertaking, esp. a managerial or organizational task, as like herding cats ( as hard as herding cats, etc.): extremely difficult to accomplish; unmanageable, futile. ΚΠ 1986 National Jrnl. 3 May 1062 Yerxa will have to continue to juggle the divergent views of the subcommittee members, a task he said ‘can be like trying to herd cats’. 1988 MIS Q. 12 65 At a recent academic meeting, an academic administrator stated that managing an academic department was akin to herding cats. 1991 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 16 Sept. b1/2 Leading a group of lawyers through a difficult project can be ‘as hard as herding cats’. 1999 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 16 Feb. b5/1 Murphy this term is letting others preside, allowing them to get their feet wet at controlling the 180-person circus that is the General Assembly's House chamber. It's a feat not unlike herding cats. 2000 J. Alexander Command Performance xi. 243 Influencing Hollywood is a little like herding cats. extracted from herdv.² < as lemmas
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