Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Croatian term or phrase:
tapkati u mjestu
English translation:
grope in the dark
Croatian term
Croatia
Efficient and reliable
Native in: Croatian
Works in: English to Croatian, French to Croatian
tapkati u mjestu
| 5 +2 | grope in the dark |
Marija Vujosevic Caric
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| 4 +2 | tread water |
Pavle Perencevic
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| 4 | get nowhere |
eleonora_r
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| 4 | go around/round in circles |
ivanamdb
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Jun 11, 2008 16:39: Veronica Prpic Uhing changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
PRO (2): ivanamdb, eleonora_r
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Proposed translations
Croatia
over 30 years of translating
Native in: Croatian 
, Serbian
Works in: English to Croatian, English to Serbian, English to Serbo-Croat, and 4 more.
grope in the dark
Criminals find it easy as police grope in the dark
Canada
Sparing no effort to get it right!
Native in: Serbian 
Works in: Serbian to English, Slovenian to English, Croatian to English, and 7 more.
tread water
"In other words, in our good years, we were treading water and in others, we're actually regressing." (see the Web reference below)
| Hvala, to bi bilo to, no mom kontekstu bolje odgovara prethodni odgovor. |
| agree |
Dragan Novakovic
: To be active but without making progress or falling farther behind. Sales are about the same as last year, and the company is pretty much treading water.
5 hrs
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| agree |
Larisa Djuvelek-Ruggiero (X)
1 day 9 hrs
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get nowhere
getting nowhere - making no progress
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