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plait sawdust

plait sawdust verb: synonym of plait fog.

Verb

plait sawdust (third-person singular simple present plaits sawdust, present participle plaiting sawdust, simple past and past participle plaited sawdust)

  1. (UK) Synonym of plait fog.
    • One person has described trying to get a group of toddlers to sit on a mat to listen to a story as 'like trying to plait sawdust.'2003, Laurie Makin, Marian R Whitehead, How to Develop Children's Early Literacy, page 39
    • The urinating gentleman in question was a main-scale teacher whose attempts to go therough the performance threshold appeared about as straightforward as trying to plait sawdust.2007, Brian Carline, How to be a Successful Head of Year: A Practical Guide, page xi
    Synonyms:
    plait fog

Examples of plait sawdust in a sentence

  • I can no more read an MRI scanner than “plait sawdust”.2008, Phillip Taylor, Going Full Circle: My Fight Against Guillain Barre Syndrome, page 56:
  • If that was a penalty, I'll plait sawdust.2010, Phil Shaw, Tell Him He's Pelé:, page 46:

Synonyms of plait sawdust

Forms of plait sawdust

third-person singular presentplaits sawdust
present participleplaiting sawdust
past participleplaited sawdust
pastplaited sawdust

Questions about plait sawdust

What does plait sawdust mean?
Plait sawdust means synonym of plait fog.
How do you use plait sawdust in a sentence?
I can no more read an MRI scanner than “plait sawdust”.
What part of speech is plait sawdust?
Plait sawdust is a verb.
What is the past tense of plait sawdust?
The past tense of plait sawdust is plaited sawdust.

Words near plait sawdust in the dictionary

  1. plaistering
  2. plaisters
  3. Plaistow
  4. plait
  5. plait fog
  6. plait sawdust
  7. plaited
  8. plaited fog
  9. plaited sawdust
  10. plaiter
  11. plaiters

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