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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "sprecare tempo"
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"note": "آب در هاون کوبیدن (âb dar hâvan kubidan, literally “to grind water in a mortar”)",
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"note": "решето́м во́ду носи́ть (rešetóm vódu nosítʹ, literally “carry water in a sieve”)",
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"word": "machacar en hierro frío"
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"To attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period."
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"(dated, nautical) To attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period."
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more"
},
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "surnud hobust peksta"
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "tühja tööd tegema"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "viljatut ideed uuesti üles võtma"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "piiskata kuollutta hevosta"
},
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "auf etwas herumreiten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "seine Zeit verschwenden"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "sich vergeblich bemühen"
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "vesztegeti az idejét"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "mint halottnak a csók"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "falra hányt borsó"
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "feleslegesen igyekszik/erőlteti"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "lezárt témán lovagol"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "sprecare tempo"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "è fatica sprecata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "è una battaglia persa"
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{
"code": "ki",
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "kũhũra maaĩ na ndĩrĩ"
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "mencari jejak dalam air"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"note": "آب در هاون کوبیدن (âb dar hâvan kubidan, literally “to grind water in a mortar”)",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more"
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"note": "no equivalent term in Polish",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"tags": [
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"word": "but see robić coś na próżno"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"tags": [
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"word": "zrobić coś na próżno"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "chutar cachorro morto"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "решето́м во́ду носи́ть (rešetóm vódu nosítʹ, literally “carry water in a sieve”)",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more"
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"code": "ru",
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"note": "напрасно стараться (naprasno staratʹsja, literally “try hard in vain”)",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more"
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "a' marbhadh coin mhairbh"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "machacar en hierro frío"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "havanda su dövmek"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more",
"word": "boşa kürek çekmek"
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"word": "flog a dead horse"
}
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