mug's game
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.66 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A foolish, profitless, or hopeless undertaking.
Example Sentences
- "‘It's a mug's game,’ said Crabbe."
- "The sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes the quest for defenses a mug's game."
- "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."