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This tag is for questions seeking a phrase that fits a meaning. If you are looking for a word, or don't care, see the "word-request" tag too.
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What phrase would American English speakers use in place of "Tom, Dick and Harry"?
As Michael Siefert says, this is both used and immediately recognizable in American English, but it would be generational, with the oldest speakers finding it natural, many or most middle-aged speaker …
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Expression for the discardable remains of sugar-cane after we chew and suck up its juice
"Cud" is specific to ruminants (cows etc.) and implies that the plant material has been mixed with the contents of the stomach before being chewed again. Humans don't do this, so I would not use this …
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English equivalent to the famous Hindi proverb "the marriage sweetmeat: those who eat it reg...
Not exactly a proverb because it is not so much part of popular consciousness, but well-known to philosophers is something written by Søren Kierkegaard:
“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, y …
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Idiom that means “to do something that yields no result”
It seems you want an expression to mean you are expending effort that yields no results. In this case, beating a dead horse, as already suggested, is probably the closest to your intent. This does f …
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