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fool's errand
noun
- a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
fool's errand
noun
- a fruitless undertaking
Idioms and Phrases
A fruitless mission or undertaking, as in Asking the bank for yet another loan was clearly a fool's errand . [c. 1700]Example Sentences
Friends, colleagues, and writers I respected made, I thought, persuasive cases for improving the experience—ignoring Musk altogether, deleting your old tweets—even as others insisted, convincingly, that this was not just a fool’s errand but a dangerous one.
N/A Why: In my opinion, it’s not only a fool’s errand to guess, but also foolish to try to game out how the ultimate transition of power will shape up, either way—Trump and his cronies are already planning another coup attempt if he loses, after all.
“I think copying any exact model of another team is probably a fool’s errand. We need to be able to do it in our own way.”
Predicting the future is a fool's errand and we live in bizarre times.
In politics, voters get the final word; yelling at them is a fool’s errand.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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