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mug's game en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) A foolish, profitless, or hopeless undertaking.
   • The sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes the quest for defenses a mug's game. 1988 May 20, Strobe Talbot, “Inside Moves”, in Time:
   • ‘It's a mug's game,’ said Crabbe. 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 109:
   • Although they aspired, like all natural-born gamblers, to taking a flutter and beating that system (they all loved the idea of tips, of course), they were sufficiently cynical to know it's a mug's game and that it was largely bound to fail. 2012, David Stevenson, FT Guide to Exchange Traded Funds and Index Funds:

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nl gekkenwerk (A foolish, profitless, or hopeless undertaking.) · nl zinloze bezigheid (A foolish, profitless, or hopeless undertaking.)