nail Jell-O to a wall

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Verb

nail Jell-O to a wall (third-person singular simple present nails Jell-O to a wall, present participle nailing Jell-O to a wall, simple past and past participle nailed Jell-O to a wall)

1. Alternative form of nail Jell-O to a tree
   • 2016, Robert Kerr, How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism:

     Writing objective history or raising a teenager may be like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall, as those and other challenging tasks have been popularly analogized.