Yak shaving Uncommon

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Noun

Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.

See Also

when you're up to your neck in alligators it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain swamp bikeshedding useless activity useful

Related Terms

when you're up to your neck in alligators it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain swamp bikeshedding useless activity useful

Rhyming Words

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