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fool's errand
noun
- a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
fool's errand
noun
- a fruitless undertaking
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Idioms and Phrases
A fruitless mission or undertaking, as in Asking the bank for yet another loan was clearly a fool's errand . [c. 1700]Discover More
Example Sentences
If you must stay, if you must go on your fools errand, at least take one or more of the men with you.
That I can promise you, and if I agreed to this proposition of yours I would be on a fools errand as well as you.
Pardon me if I say to you that I didnt come here on a fools errand.
A fools errand—but one that I must need go—and for that matter I myself am a fool.
To go in among the hidden gray shadows of the deep things is a fools errand.
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