plait sawdust

English

Verb

plait sawdust (third-person singular simple present plaits sawdust, present participle plaiting sawdust, simple past and past participle plaited sawdust)

1. (UK) Synonym of plait fog.
   • 2003, Laurie Makin, Marian R Whitehead, How to Develop Children's Early Literacy, page 39:

     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.'

   • 2007, Brian Carline, How to be a Successful Head of Year: A Practical Guide, page xi:

     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.

   • 2008, Phillip Taylor, Going Full Circle: My Fight Against Guillain Barre Syndrome, page 56:

     I can no more read an MRI scanner than “plait sawdust”.

   • 2010, Phil Shaw, Tell Him He's Pelé:, page 46:

     If that was a penalty, I'll plait sawdust.

   • 2010, Stanley Graham, Naive Occasional Papers. Volume Two, page 220:

     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'.