buscar una aguja en un pajar
Spanish
Verb
buscar una aguja en un pajar (first-person singular present busco una aguja en un pajar, first-person singular preterite busqué una aguja en un pajar, past participle buscado una aguja en un pajar)
- (idiomatic) to look for a needle in a haystack
Further reading
- “buscar una aguja en un pajar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024