boil the ocean

tv. to waste one’s time attempting to do the impossible. (see also plowing water.) You’re wasting my time. You might as well be boiling the ocean.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kreine	-	Yiddish
Anush	-	Armenian
Isidorus	-	Late Roman
Dilip	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam
Marcelle	-	French
Narayanan	-	Indian, Malayalam, Tamil