大海捞针
dà​hǎi​lāo​zhēn

needle in a haystack

大海捞针 (大海撈針) dà​hǎi​lāo​zhēn
needle in a haystack idiom
To fish for a needle in the sea; to engage in a search that is virtually impossible or extremely difficult to succeed.

在这座大城市里找一个多年未见的朋友，简直是大海捞针。

zài zhè zuò dà chéng​shì lǐ zhǎo yī gè duō nián wèi jiàn de péng​you, jiǎn​zhí shì dà​hǎi​lāo​zhēn.

Finding a friend you haven't seen for years in this big city is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
1.43 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.399 per million

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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)