Silver Tongue

herculepoirot314:

dubiousculturalartifact:

I just accidentally invented a new idiom, maybe?

Licking a tree & hoping for maple syrup.” 

aka “A attempt at resolving/achieving something with less effort than is required for success, & a high probability of it proving merely futile & faintly unpleasant’

I can support this as a turn of phrase.

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