be on a hiding to nothing
UK informalto be trying to do something when there is no chance that you will succeed
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not hopeful
- be in a funk idiom
- chance
- defeatist
- dejected
- despair
- dim
- glum
- grim
- hiding
- hope
- hopeless
- lose
- negative
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism
- pessimistic
- prophet
- prophet of doom idiom
- win
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