mug's game
English
Noun
mug's game (plural mugs' games)
- (idiomatic) A foolish, profitless, or hopeless undertaking.
- 1988 May 20, Strobe Talbot, "Inside Moves," Time:
- The sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes the quest for defenses a mug's game.
- 1988 May 20, Strobe Talbot, "Inside Moves," Time:
References
- “mug's game” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "mug's game" at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006)
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
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