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What does 'Needle in a haystack' mean?
Something very hard or impossible to find due to the vastness of the area it could be hidden within.
What is the origion of 'Needle in a haystack'?
This phrase is used to describe the difficulty of finding a specific item or person in a massive, cluttered, or chaotic space, illustrating the near impossibility of such a task. The earliest printed instance of this concept appeared in the writings of St. Thomas More in 1532: 'Trying to find a single line in his books would be like searching for a needle in a meadow.'
Emoji meanings
- represents 'needle'
indicating the object being searched for
represents 'haystack'symbolizing the vast and challenging environment in which the search takes place
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