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mug's game

NOUN
  1. a futile or unprofitable endeavor

How To Use mug's game In A Sentence

  • The polls as I write make it a mug's game to bet on the outcome of the presidential election.
  • The election is so near, and the polls so close, that it's now a mug's game to predict the outcome with anything approaching confidence, let alone certainty.
  • The aim of the campaign is to make young people believe that smoking is a mug's game.
  • It's a bit of a mug's game trying to translate the already translated words of a person back into the language originally used.
  • Jackie thought that was a mug's game, but was happy to separate the cream from the milk (by hand), and make butter in a wooden churn.
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