milk the ram

old-fashioned To engage in an activity or enterprise that has no chance of succeeding; to do something pointless or futile. (A ram is a male sheep and cannot be milked.) I don't know why you bother arguing with him. You're just milking the ram if you think you're going to change his mind. Everyone told us we were milking the ram when we set up our online store during the infancy of the Internet, but now we're one of the most successful companies in the world.

词组	milk the ram
释义	milk the ram milk the ram old-fashioned To engage in an activity or enterprise that has no chance of succeeding; to do something pointless or futile. (A ram is a male sheep and cannot be milked.) I don't know why you bother arguing with him. You're just milking the ram if you think you're going to change his mind. Everyone told us we were milking the ram when we set up our online store during the infancy of the Internet, but now we're one of the most successful companies in the world. See also: milk, ram Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: milk the bull bring sand to the beach piss up a rope spit in(to) the wind piss in the wind piss in(to) the wind be pissing in(to) the wind be spitting in the wind be spitting in(to) the wind spitting in the wind
随便看	fort forth for that matter for the ages for the asking for the best for the better for the birds for the birds, it's/that's for the devil of it for the duration for the foreseeable future for the fun of it for the good of for the good of (someone or something) for the heck of it for the hell of it for the high jump for the life of for the life of me for the life of (one) for the life of one for the long haul for the love of for the love of God