单词 | needle in a haystack |
释义 | needle in a haystackAn item that is very hard or impossible to locate, as in Looking for that screw in Dean's workshop amounts to looking for a needle in a haystack. Originating in the early 1500s, with meadow instead of haystack, this metaphor exists in many other languages as well. Words nearby needle in a haystackneedle exchange, needlefish, needle fly, needleful, needle-holder, needle in a haystack, needlepoint, Needles, needless, needless to say, needlestick The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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