boiling the ocean , auch: boil the ocean

You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without boiling the oceans."

It all goes into boiling the ocean.

"Now, how's that for boiling the ocean, Steve?"

Pretty soon you'd face the impossible task of organizing all the information known to man - of "boiling the ocean," as Ferrucci put it.

The twin sisters fought for many years across their the kingdom, scorching the land and the skies, boiling the oceans, laying waste to whole towns.

The biggest impacts would have swathed our globe in incandescent rock vapor, boiling the oceans dry and sterilizing the surface worldwide.

- 'boiling the ocean,' 'opening the kimono.'