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."

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