Sentence examples for chasing its tail from inspiring English sources
2011 – The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht Kapka Kassabova wrote: "The Tiger's Wife is a frisky tiger cub chasing its tail – it covers a lot of ground, growls a lot, and never quite gets there, but we have fun along the way.
This ambitious novel is so busy chasing its tail that it forgets to go forwards.
That, in turn, increases the chances that the governments will have to step in and bail out the banks, giving rise to a situation akin to a dog chasing its tail until it finally collapses.
And then when it wakes up, and it's back to chasing its tail around.
But I find a darker image insistent: of a frenzied world chasing its tail even as it devours scarce resources.
It will spin, chasing its tail.
There's the circular logic of that complete restoration false option again (does anyone else feel like they're watching a cat chase its tail?) 2. It's sounds like the city has already poisoned the well for any options other than destruction.
As a result, my garden rescue notes have been neglected as 2012 chases its tail.
The best-case scenario for a New Democracy-Pasok-Democratic Left coalition would be to gain some concessions from the eurozone that would allow the government to do more than just chase its tail in an effort to find revenues and cut spending over the next few months as Greece heads for an economic contraction more than 5% of GDP this year.
