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mug's game
noun
a foolish, useless, or ill-advised venture.
Origin:
1905–10
1905–10
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Mug's game
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| mug's game | |
noun | |
| a futile or unprofitable endeavor |
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