needle in a haystack

Something that is very difficult to locate. Trying to find my contact lens on the floor was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

needle in a haystack

An item that is very hard or impossible to locate, as in Looking for that screw in Dean's workshop amounts to looking for a needle in a haystack. Originating in the early 1500s, with meadow instead of haystack, this metaphor exists in many other languages as well.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aada	AH:-dah	Finnish
Inmaculada	-	Spanish
Lesley	LEZ-lee, LES-lee	English
Octave	-	French
Fedele	fe-DE-le	Italian
Raffaela	-	German