Boil the ocean
Idiom / PhraseSSC PYQ × 4Try to do something impossible
आसमान से तारे तोड़ लाना
Trying ten subjects at once is boiling the ocean.
To boil the ocean fails in the second week.
Daily use: Iska matlab asambhav bada kaam lena.
क्या पूरे समुद्र को उबाला जा सकता है? नहीं, चाहे कितनी भी आग लगा लीजिए। इसलिए boil the ocean = impossible काम करने की कोशिश।
Can anyone boil a whole ocean? No, however big the fire. So to boil the ocean is to try to do something impossible, or a task far too big to finish.
Meaning 'try to do something impossible' है। Related idiom: bite off more than one can chew; options में opposite भाव feasible (व्यवहार्य) होता है।
The meaning is 'to try to do something impossible'. A related idiom is 'bite off more than one can chew', and the opposite idea in options is 'feasible'.