If the draw is oversubscribed, the marshals may as well
herd cats! If say the marshals tell a group to pick up their pace when they have been waiting in all their previous shots, it only adds to their frustration.
It will become harder and harder to
herd cats. Why not find someone more considerate and willing to share?
It's like herding cats, and how do you
herd cats when you've lost your captain?" Klemmer teased.
It's hard to
herd cats, and even worse when you put the cats in charge of herding.
People who can
herd cats, and nail Jello to a tree.
This type of panic, natural or synthetic, real or imagined, is the best way to
herd cats; i.e., direct the masses.
Trying to use the tools of a Western-style state to control these rooted societies was like trying to
herd cats with a dog-training manual," he wrote.
And in the absence of cows, cowboys would be forced to
herd cats or lasso sheep.
A fifth theory simply recognizes that trying to organize academics is like trying to
herd cats. College and university presidents rarely act or speak as a group, except when they lobby for government money.
Trying to predict it was as tricky as "trying to
herd cats," said one yesterday.
Basically, I seem to have spent 2007, along withmany of its predecessors, trying to
herd cats.
The trouble is that asking the public to put in serious suggestions is like trying to
herd cats.
So whether you're a metrosexual, a contrasexual or an ubersexual who wants to
herd cats, fork a tree or shuffle some muppets, this is the dictionary for you.
Keeping tabs and maintaining a reliable flow of supply and production information from the members of Opec is like "trying to
herd cats", said one industry insider at the WPC.
It's made by winemakers each with their own set of ideas as to how it should be made and, like trying to
herd cats, each goes off in his own inimitable way.
