treading water
Noun
Meaning
a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
Earth to Bella - You're treading water successfully. But are you really? Don't you want to see the deep? It's not so hard. Just forgive yourself and feel the water open in.
Getting fired,' Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.
If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.
“It’s not a viable business, but it can give us a fighting chance to keep treading water until there’s a vaccine.”
If you have access to a pool and enjoy swimming, dive in, do some laps and practice treading water for half an hour or more.