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like kicking dead whales down the beach

jargon, humour Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting

process. First popularised by a famous quote about the

difficulty of getting work done under one of IBM's

mainframe OSes. "Well, you *could* write a C compiler in

COBOL, but it would be like kicking dead whales down the

beach."

(1997-12-23)

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