nail Jell-O to a wall

English

Verb

nail Jell-O to a wall (third-person singular simple present nails Jell-O to a wall, present participle nailing Jell-O to a wall, simple past and past participle nailed Jell-O to a wall)

  1. Alternative form of nail Jell-O to a tree.
    • 2000 March 8, 32:26 from the start, in Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China‎[1], spoken by Bill Clinton, via C-SPAN, retrieved 17 June 2025:
      We know how much the Internet has changed America. And we are already an open society. Imagine how much it could change China. Now, there is no question – China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. Good luck. That's sort of like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.
    • 2016, Robert Kerr, How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism:
      Writing objective history or raising a teenager may be like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall, as those and other challenging tasks have been popularly analogized.
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