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plait sawdust en · VERB

Meanings

1. (UK) Synonym of plait fog.
   • Bob Smith who was office manager at Nelson and Colne College once said in a meeting 'We've plaited sawdust for that long all the pigeons have come home to roost'. 2010, Stanley Graham, Naive Occasional Papers. Volume Two, page 220:
   • The urinating gentleman in question was a main-scale teacher whose attempts to go therough the performance threshold appeared about as straightforward as trying to plait sawdust. 2007, Brian Carline, How to be a Successful Head of Year: A Practical Guide, page xi:
   • If that was a penalty, I'll plait sawdust. 2010, Phil Shaw, Tell Him He's Pelé:, page 46:
   • One person has described trying to get a group of toddlers to sit on a mat to listen to a story as 'like trying to plait sawdust.' 2003, Laurie Makin, Marian R Whitehead, How to Develop Children's Early Literacy, page 39:
   • I can no more read an MRI scanner than “plait sawdust”. 2008, Phillip Taylor, Going Full Circle: My Fight Against Guillain Barre Syndrome, page 56:

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Synonyms

plait fog