chase your tail
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chase your tail — idiom
1. to be very busy doing many things but achieving very little, often because of po
1.idiom
Definition
to be very busy doing many things but achieving very little, often because of poor organisation
Example
Élise spent the whole morning chasing her tail and got nothing ready for the meeting.
Without a proper system, the support team is just chasing its tail all day.