roast snow in a furnace

roast snow in a furnace

To attempt a futile, often ridiculous, task. You're so tiny that there's no way you can carry that armchair upstairs all by yourself—you might as well roast snow in a furnace!
See also: roast, snow
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bark up the wrong tree
  • bark up the wrong tree, to
  • be on a hiding to nothing
  • on a hiding to nothing
  • put a rope to the eye of a needle
  • rearrange
  • be like rearranging (the) deckchairs on the Titanic
  • deckchairs
  • be barking up the wrong tree
  • give somebody/something up as a bad job