exercise in futility
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[edit]Noun
[edit]exercise in futility (plural exercises in futility)
- A course of action doomed to be futile.
- 2009 August 8, Tahereh Ghanaati, “The War in Afghanistan: An Exercise in Futility”, in Press TV[1]:
- Many feel that the continued war in Afghanistan is nothing more than an exercise in futility - and with good reason.