Moving Bags of Lettuce

A phrase used to describe something that:
A) should be incredibly simple, but is instead quite complicated
B) should be easy, but instead requires immense effort
C) seems like it should take only a short while to accomplish, but instead takes exponentially longer than expected

The phrase appears to have originated from a conversation between an engineer and his sister early in 2024. The story goes that in describing his day, he was explaining a conveyor belt that he was designing. Intending to use “like” as a filler word, he said, “It’s just, like, moving bags of lettuce! It shouldn’t be so hard!” His sister, thinking he was using some new expression she had never heard, asked him to explain what he meant by, “like moving bags of lettuce.” Thus the expression was born.

My work was terribly difficult today. I felt like I was moving bags of lettuce.

Changing that tire was like moving bags of lettuce. It took three hours longer than I thought it would have.

by The Guy from Up North September 22, 2024

it moves.

a phrase used by white boy referring to the movement of a females breast

J (white male): it moves.

M (female): no way really!!!

by cockguzzlingwhore444 November 15, 2023

moving the vegetables

Drinking alcoholic beverages, specifically beer.

I went out with Brad last night and we were moving the vegetables!

by JacobWhite6 April 23, 2023

Banned and Clear makes a move

What I call homo-sapiens who are addicted to abscesses.

Person 1: Are you addicted to abscesses?
Person 2: Yes.
Person 1: Good, you are now "Banned and Clear makes a move".

by ToheGavelisoNotiloni January 19, 2025

CheckMate Move

The act of banning Kali and Goyo in a Ranked game of Rainbow Six Siege

Let’s Get the Other Team with the checkmate move

by 67526 May 31, 2022

On the move

Someone who never sattele. Always changing his or her place, or job.

Jhony is always on the move. He never stayed at the same apartment for more than 6 months for his whole life.

by Zee, aj May 26, 2018

moving screen

Moving Screen: (plural moving screens) (basketball, informal) An offensive foul committed when a player executing a screen moves in order to block the defender and makes contact. Technically it is a block; in other words, there is no such terminology in most rulebooks using the phrase "moving screen."

Wow! Look at Cheap Jordan Bell perfectly execute a moving screen on James Harden to free up Steph Curry!

#2018WesternConfFinals

by Capt. El Nino June 11, 2018