单词 | spin one's wheels |
释义 | spin one's wheelsExpend effort with no result, as in We're just spinning our wheels here while management tries to make up its mind. This idiom, with its image of a vehicle in snow or sand that spins its wheels but cannot move, dates from the mid-1900s. Words nearby spin one's wheelsspinobulbar, spinocerebellum, spinode, spin-off, Spinone Italiano, spin one's wheels, spinor, spinose, spinothalamic tract, spinous, spinous layer The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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