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like kicking a dead whale down the beach

like kicking a dead whale down the beach is the alternative form of like kicking dead whales down the beach.

Meaning of like kicking dead whales down the beach

Prepositional phrase

  1. (slang, usually, simile, process) Very slow and difficult.
    • I have a full backup, but restoring 213 MB of data from one oppy to another with a single drive, even using dd and big packets, is going to be like kicking dead whales down the beach. Is there an easier way?1993 September 16, Joshua W. Burton, “OD has no more alternates for remap -- should I worry?”, in comp.sys.next.hardware (Usenet)

Questions about like kicking a dead whale down the beach

What is like kicking a dead whale down the beach the alternative form of?
Like kicking a dead whale down the beach is the alternative form of like kicking dead whales down the beach.

Words near like kicking a dead whale down the beach in the dictionary

  1. like it or lump it
  2. like it or not
  3. like it's going out of fashion
  4. like it's going out of style
  5. like it's nobody's business
  6. like kicking a dead whale down the beach
  7. like kicking dead whales down the beach
  8. like lightning
  9. like like
  10. like liked
  11. like likes

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