an expression indicating the expected benefits of a certain action will be too trifling to merit the expenditure of energy required to obtain them, usually deployed in relation to a discrete object, as in “Don’t redo the calculations to account for inflation, it’s so minor the juice won’t be worth the squeeze; similar to boil the ocean, which refers to something more expansive or voluminous, and to mouse milking, which is used when a more outré descriptor is required; a contrasting but also citrus-related phrase is squeeze the lemon, for when the metaphorical object in question is less desiccated
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