yak shaving

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Singular
yak shaving

Plural
uncountable

yak shaving (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.

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