the wheel is spinning, but the hamster’s dead

Fuente de la expresión
Jokelopedia
Contexto
He doesn’t seem driven or viciously conniving enough. You
know, like his wheel is spinning but the hamster’s dead.” Mac laughed. “That’s waht my
intuition is telling me, too.”
Tipo de fuente
Libro
Autor
Paul Zindel
Título de la fuente
P. C. Hawke Mysteries: Death on the Amazon
Año
2002
Web
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Idioma
English
Nivel de uso
Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
Marca dialectal
General
Frecuencia
Raro