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.