mò kim đáy bể

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Compare Chinese 海底摸針海底摸针 (hải để mạc châm).

Pronunciation

Verb

kim đáy bể

  1. (idiomatic) to look for a needle in a haystack; literally "to blindly look for a needle at the bottom of the ocean"