Timeline for An idiom meaning someone's doing something useless and has no result at the end
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| Apr 13, 2012 at 20:52 | comment | added | Peter Ajtai | Pissing in the wind is not a problem. As long as you do it down wind and not into the wind. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 13:11 | comment | added | B Faley | In the native language of OP, there is an equivalent idiom: Pissing on a solid ground. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 12:22 | comment | added | callum | Good phrase, but it's not quite the same: it means a problematic/precarious task – slightly different from a pointless exercise like squashing water, which doesn't achieve anything. You might end up covered in piss, but you've still had a piss. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 12:13 | comment | added | hammar | That implies more of a negative result than no result. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 8:57 | history | answered | Barrie England | CC BY-SA 3.0 |