yak shaving

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Definition von yak shaving im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

The actually useless activity you do that appears important when you are consciously or unconsciously procrastinating about a larger problem

I thought I'd get more work done if I just fixed a problem with my .emacs file, but then I spent the whole afternoon yak shaving.

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

I was doing a bit of yak shaving this morning, and it looks like it might have paid off.

Silbentrennung

yak sha·ving

Türkische aussprache

yäk şeyvîng

Aussprache

/ˈyak ˈsʜāvəɴɢ/ /ˈjæk ˈʃeɪvɪŋ/

Etymologie

() Uncertain, probably coined by Carlin Vieri in his time at the MIT AI Lab (1993-8)Brown, Jeremy (2000-02-11). "." URL accessed on 2010-06-16. , based on an episode of The Ren and Stimpy Show.