a mug's game
UK informalDefinition
› an activity that will not make you happy or successful: She decided that freelancing was a mug's game.Useless and futile
(Definition of a mug's game from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- adrift adjective
- aimless adjective
- airy-fairy adjective
- be at a loose end idiom
- be chasing your tail idiom
- fool's errand noun
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous adjective
- fruitless adjective
- futile adjective
- no-good adjective
- nugatory adjective
- ornamental adjective
- otiose adjective
- outlive your usefulness idiom
- until you are blue in the face idiom
- unwieldy adjective (NOT EFFECTIVE)
- useless adjective
- vain adjective (NOT SUCCESSFUL)
- vainly adverb
Topic:
Useless and futile
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