mug's game

noun
a foolish, useless, or ill-advised venture.

Origin:
1905–10

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mug's game

noun
a futile or unprofitable endeavor 
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Mug's game is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
Example sentences
As readers discover that buying books is actually a mug's game they will ask why they're paying high prices for middling content.
He's a gentleman in a mug's game, and this is no time for gentlemen.
It's only a mug's game to vote in a one party state, then pretend.
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