“An uphill battle”in other languages
A long, hard struggle where progress is slow.
English
Turkish
Urdu
EnglishTurkishUrduSame idea, different pictures
English fights uphill, which every army knows is harder. The other two pick a tool or a food that makes the job almost impossible: digging a well with a needle in Turkish, chewing chickpeas made of iron in Urdu.
The Turkish one stresses slowness and patience; the Urdu one stresses how tough the ordeal is.
More sayings in other languages
- Ants in one's pants
- The apple of one's eye
- At cross purposes
- At full tilt
- At the top of one's lungs
- Avoid like the plague
- Bail someone out
- Bang one's head against a brick wall
- Bark up the wrong tree