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be chasing your tail
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(Definition of be chasing your tail from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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be blowed if... idiom
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be bored, drunk, etc. out of your mind idiom
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be brought/called to account idiom
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be cast in the same mould idiom
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be caught/taken short idiom
- be chasing your tail idiom
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be child's play idiom
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be chilled/frozen to the marrow idiom
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be climbing the walls idiom
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be close to the bone idiom
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be cold comfort idiom
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SMART Thesaurus: Useless and futile
Synonyms and related words:
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift adjective
- aimless adjective
- airy-fairy adjective
- be at a loose end idiom
- fool's errand noun
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous adjective
- fruitless adjective
- futile adjective
- no-good adjective
- nugatory adjective
- ornamental adjective
- otiose adjective
- outlive your usefulness idiom
- until you are blue in the face idiom
- unwieldy adjective (NOT EFFECTIVE)
- useless adjective
- vain adjective (NOT SUCCESSFUL)
- vainly adverb
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