like kicking dead whales down the beach
like kicking dead whales down the beach
(jargon, humour)Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting
process. First popularised by a famous quote about the
difficulty of getting work done under one of
IBM's
mainframe OSes. "Well, you *could* write a C compiler in
COBOL, but it would be like kicking dead whales down the
beach."
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