haystack
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1.6
- noun
- /ˈheɪˌstæk/
- The men slept outside, disposed in various haystacks, wagon beds, and patches of bracken.
- needle in a haystack
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Watch on YouTubeSo that meant that the the haystack was getting bigger.
- So that meant that the the haystack was getting bigger.
- We call this the needle pile, the needle in the haystack that everyone's looking for.
- So this is a phenomenon that is sometimes called finding hay in a haystack.
- And you know, if you, if you make enough calls, you'll find that needle in the haystack.
- OK, If you needling, if you fucking rode haystack on your arm and you fucking needling yourself, I'm out daddy.
- I have a buyer for that house and all of a sudden you see the needle in the haystack.
- And they said, Watson, help me understand, you know, what is, what are the types of things that'll help me identify the new needles in the haystack?
- Finding these home run stocks is difficult and many investors rather than trying to find a needle in a haystack, just buy the whole haystack.
- I mean, when you're in mouth, like, you know, like a needle in a haystack.
Examples
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The dog ran away toward the haystack, scared by the beams of the flashlights scraping its body.
Fiction book (1994) -
Tom, I want you to go down by the haystack.
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So that meant that the the haystack was getting bigger.
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It's in a good tight shed, and it has a canvas haystack cover over it.
Fiction book (1994) -
That's rather a large haystack to hunt through for what must be a very small needle.
Fiction book (1996) -
They can hide in haystacks for a few hours.
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At the MIT Haystack Observatory, students are given a new way to look at the universe.
Academic text (2004) -
The children played hide and seek around the large haystack in the farmer's field.
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After the harvest, the farmer stacked the remaining hay into a haystack for the winter.
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The old barn was filled with a haystack that provided a place for animals to stay warm.
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Idioms
- Informal
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6.7
To try to find something that is hidden among many things
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Etymology
Haystack joins the simple words hay ('dried grass') and stack ('pile'). It literally means a pile of hay on a farm, and that clear picture is exactly why the word still means the same thing today.