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单词 spin one's wheels
释义

spin one's wheels


Expend effort with no result, as in We're just spinning our wheels here while management tries to make up its mind. This idiom, with its image of a vehicle in snow or sand that spins its wheels but cannot move, dates from the mid-1900s.

Words nearby spin one's wheels

spinobulbar, spinocerebellum, spinode, spin-off, Spinone Italiano, spin one's wheels, spinor, spinose, spinothalamic tract, spinous, spinous layer
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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