be treading water
to not be advancing in any way:
I think she feels that she's just treading water in that job.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Movement
- ambulatory
- catalepsy
- comings
- floating
- get
- gravitation
- immobile
- immobilize
- inert
- locomotion
- mobile
- motility
- motion
- movable
- moving
- pull
- pull up short idiom
- rooted
- still
- tread
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