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Oct 14, 2003 ... When this happens, you may feel like Don Quixote, as he was looking "for a needle in a bottle of hay." The large number of offerings is ...
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Looking for something valuable in these tremendous amount of information is as difficult as looking for a needle in a bottle of hay. Searching for valuable ...
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www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/20908-needle-hay...
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According to Bartlett's, the expression 'As well look for as needle in a bottle of hay ' (translated from the original Spanish) appears in part III, ...
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As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay. Part II, Book III, ch. 10. Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone? Part II, Book III, ch. 10. I'll turn over a new ...
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Needle in a haystack - a near-impossible search for something ... Bottle was an old word for a bundle of hay or straw, from the Old French botel, ... A curious phrase that originally meant what it looks as if it ought still to mean, i.e. that no love is ...
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www.goodenglish.org.sg/improve/idioms/a-needle-haystack...
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Something or someone that is difficult and nearly impossible to find. ... Initially, it was called “a needle in a bottle of hay”, “bottle” being an early expression for ...
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www.giga-usa.com/quotes/topics/proverbial_phrases_t013....
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May 1, 2011 ... To look at both sides of a penny. - Proverb To look for a needle in a bottle of hay. - Proverb, (German) To look for a needle in a bundle of hay.
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Dec 4, 2006... and it was originally a needle in a bottle of hay bottle being an early form ... line in his bookes would be to go look (for) a needle in a meadow.
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Looking for a needle in a haystack ... 'Needle in a Haystack' is a lot older than Shakespeare and it was originally "a needle in a bottle of hay" - "bottle" being an ...
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