plait sawdust

present singular third person plaits sawdust · participle present plaiting sawdust · participle past plaited sawdust · past plaited sawdust

1. UKSynonym of plait fog.

   If that was a penalty, I'll plait sawdust.

   2010, Phil Shaw, Tell Him He's Pelé:, page 46

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   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

   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

   Bob Smith who was office manager at Nelson and Colne College once said in a meeting 'We've plaited sawdust for that long all the pigeons have come home to roost'.

   2010, Stanley Graham, Naive Occasional Papers. Volume Two, page 220

   Synonyms: plait fog