plait sawdust
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "One person has described trying to get a group of toddlers to sit on a mat to listen to a story as 'like trying to plait sawdust.'"
- "The urinating gentleman in question was a main-scale teacher whose attempts to go therough the performance threshold appeared about as straightforward as trying to plait sawdust."
- "I can no more read an MRI scanner than “plait sawdust”."
- "If that was a penalty, I'll plait sawdust."
- "Bob Smith who was office manager at Nelson and Colne College once said in a meeting 'We've plaited sawdust for that long all the pigeons have come home to roost'."
Usage
- British usage