Milking the bull
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Milking the bull
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Milking the bull is a proverb which uses the metaphor of milking a bull to indicate that an activity would be fruitless or futile. In the 16th century, the German painter Hans Schäufelein illustrated the proverb on the eight of bells in a deck of playing cards. Dr Johnson used the proverb to criticise the work of David Hume and other skeptical philosophers.
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A proverb indicating a fruitless task
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milking_the_bull
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2023-03-15T11:08:23Z
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