"buscar una aguja en un pajar" meaning in Spanish

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Verb

Forms: busco una aguja en un pajar [first-person, present, singular], busqué una aguja en un pajar [first-person, preterite, singular], buscado una aguja en un pajar [participle, past]
Head templates: {{es-verb}} buscar una aguja en un pajar (first-person singular present busco una aguja en un pajar, first-person singular preterite busqué una aguja en un pajar, past participle buscado una aguja en un pajar)
  1. (idiomatic) to look for a needle in a haystack Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-buscar_una_aguja_en_un_pajar-es-verb-hvjEM8Pl Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header
     
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      "form": "busco una aguja en un pajar",
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    {
      "form": "busqué una aguja en un pajar",
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        "preterite",
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    {
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        },
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      "glosses": [
        "to look for a needle in a haystack"
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        "(idiomatic) to look for a needle in a haystack"
      ],
      "tags": [
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    }
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}

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    {
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        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "busqué una aguja en un pajar",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buscado una aguja en un pajar",
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        "Spanish idioms",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish multiword terms",
        "Spanish verbs"
      ],
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        "to look for a needle in a haystack"
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) to look for a needle in a haystack"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "buscar una aguja en un pajar"
}

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