Talk:Needle in a haystack

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I suggest this article be nominated for the official shittiest article on Wikipedia. I'd ask if anyone agrees, but I doubt anyone is going to read the discussion page of such a backwater article anyway. James Callahan 19:43, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

So it's a wiki...
If you don't like it, fix it! And if the subject is so dull, I wonder how you found it in the first place... ;-) Moyabrit 22:44, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Somebody add a reference to the Mythbusters episode. I can't be bothered. --Closedmouth 16:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Could somebody reference the OED? Pittsburgh Poet (talk) 13:29, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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Not just in English
I just wanted to point that this idiom is not unique to English. I live in Israel and in Modern Hebrew there is the idiom מחט בערמת שחת (Read: Mahat Be'Aremat Shahat) which literally means needle in a haystack and also has the same meaning. NegativeIQ (talk) 06:31, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

literally the same idiom is used in dutch too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.117.31.253 (talk) 20:56, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Same in slavic languages - Czech: "(Hledat[=Search]) jehlu v kupce sena.", Slovak: "(Hladať) ihlu v kope sena".
 * Being the same in Hebrew, does it not come from the Old Testament by any chance?46.39.169.168 (talk) 16:26, 13 May 2013 (UTC)