词汇 | like trying to find flea shit in a pile of pepper |
词源 | like trying to find flea shit in a pile of pepper. The phrase is used by a U.S. senator in the movie J.F.K. (1991), but I’m sure it’s older. It means “almost impossible to find,” harder by far than finding a needle in a haystack. |
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