| 词汇 | milk the bull ram |
| 词源 | milk the bull, ram. To take on a foolish, impossible task, as the bull or ram has no milk, one being a male cow and the other a male sheep. The expression is a streamlining of the 17th- century proverb “Whilst the one milks the ram, the other holds under the sieve.” |
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