单词	boondoggle
释义	boondoggle /ˈbuːndɒɡ(ə)l / North American informal noun An unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent project: he characterized the defense program as an unworkable boondoggle... The program is incorrigible; once a boondoggle, always a boondoggle. This has been a boondoggle and a PR sham that pays utilities to build more dirty plants while claiming to be coming clean. But in the view of serious energy policy experts, the project bears all the hallmarks of a boondoggle. verb [no object] Spend money or time on unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent projects: the only guarantees are higher taxes and bureaucratic boondoggling... If people were actually aware of how they're being boondoggled, we might get somewhere. Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort. His official budget even featured a photo of a wind-powered ice sled - an example of the alleged boondoggles he said he would no longer tolerate. Origin 1930s: of unknown origin.
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