query: looking for one word to say "doing lots of work but in vain"
positive_passages.docid: 27172
positive_passages.text: Is there an American English equivalent of the British idiom "carrying coals to Newcastle"?
negative_passages.docid: 45660
negative_passages.text: Term for being unable to see glaring errors after working for some time on a task?
negative_passages.docid: 9501
negative_passages.text: Is there a single word for "moving unhinderedly"?
negative_passages.docid: 19686
negative_passages.text: Word for “only caring about oneself ”
negative_passages.docid: 29392
negative_passages.text: Looking for a word meaning a person who thinks he's the one to do everything
negative_passages.docid: 62611
negative_passages.text: What is a good word(s) for someone who excessively asks for information that they have no business knowing?
negative_passages.docid: 55947
negative_passages.text: Looking for a word or phrase for realizing a failure only after a long time
negative_passages.docid: 5568
negative_passages.text: Are there popular English sayings to express “Big fuss, tiny result”?
negative_passages.docid: 15138
negative_passages.text: Phrase to describe a fix that doesn't address the underlying issue?
negative_passages.docid: 115590
negative_passages.text: What's a common phrase that means "To put it simply though not 100% correctly"?
negative_passages.docid: 126021
negative_passages.text: Idiom for someone who got a tiny fraction of power and abuses it?
negative_passages.docid: 129877
negative_passages.text: Is there a word or phrase for someone who works hard at night and does not sleep?
negative_passages.docid: 100056
negative_passages.text: Word to describe "a person who is only wishful to help others and cares little about themself"?
negative_passages.docid: 145888
negative_passages.text: Is there a word to describe the virtue of "to do something and ask for nothing in return"?
negative_passages.docid: 3623
negative_passages.text: Words to describe people with good/poor vocabularies
negative_passages.docid: 34681
negative_passages.text: Is there an English idiom for trying to do two things at the same time and failing at both of them due to splitting your effort?
negative_passages.docid: 76218
negative_passages.text: A word that means “taking your time and doing things correctly”