| 单词 | mug's game |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmug's game mug's game n. a thankless task; a useless, foolish, or unprofitable activity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > a profitless undertaking wild-goose race1594 wild goose chase1597 fool's erranda1629 job1680 water haul1823 rainbow chase1840 Sisyphism1846 blind alley1854 fool's gold1870 mug's game1900 Saltash luck1914 dead end1922 boondoggle1947 1900 D. Brownell Diary 18 July in J. Bufton Tasmanians in Transvaal War (1905) 304 Come to the conclusion that walking is a ‘mug's game’. 1910 H. Belloc Pongo & Bull xv. 233 One cannot arrest millionaires with impunity... Even in a wild democracy to arrest them is Mug's game. 1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart ii. 77 I am going out of politics. Politics is a mug's game. 1987 C. Simmons Belles Lettres Papers i. 19 Book reviewing is a mug's game when done regularly. < as lemmas |
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