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• As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay. -- Miguel de Cervante
• As hard as finding a piece of hay in an incredibly large stack of needles -- BlackAdde
• No hay in the loft.
• Trojan horse ran out of hay
• Make hay while the sun shine
• My haystack had no needle!
• PNIH: Place Needle In Haystack
• As still to the star of its worship, though clouded
  The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee....