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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Uselessly

Uselessly and without any plan, just like ants crawling over bushes, which creep up to the top, and then down to the bottom again without gaining anything. Many men spend their lives in exactly the same fashion, which we may call a state of restless indolence.
—Seneca