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.
- 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