- like nailing jelly to a tree
- Gen Mgtused for describing a task that is considered impossible, especially when the difficulty arises from poor or sloppy specifications (slang)
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nailing jelly to a tree — idiom. Tackling a particularly messy, and probably impossible, problem. Example Citations: How do you measure happiness, anyway? Happiness, like pain, has a threshold that varies from person to person. Defining it is about as easy as nailing… … New words
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