Synonyms for treading water
tread·ing water

Princeton's WordNet

1. treading waternoun

   a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms

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1. • Swimming Stroke

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1. Kim Forrest:

   We are treading water, everyone's waiting for the language to come out from the Fed.

2. Cris Ramon:

   One of the issues we're seeing with the administration's response is that they adopt measures to address one set of migrants coming to the border and then another group of migrants come that present new challenges, you're seeing the administration treading water because it can't resolve one migration issue as another one emerges.

3. Ernesto Perez:

   A lot of multinationals have been treading water ... I have yet to see many multinationals take action.

4. Peter Lowman:

   We are treading water at best these days, fighting the headwind of all sorts of nasties such as Brexit in the UK. We don't have a clear picture of where global growth is going to go - as some regions show signs of recovery, others drop away again.

5. Augustin Eden:

   The indices are treading water today ... there seems to be a little bit of trepidation at the moment because of what's been going on in Paris this morning and overnight.