Meaning of hiding to nothing | Babel Free

Definitions

A situation in which victory has little or no value, but defeat has a huge cost.

British, idiomatic, informal

Examples

“It would have been madness to encourage them to back the mare : in fact I was on a hiding to nothing whatever happened.”

“No legitimate excuse for introduction existed, or could exist, and the odds looked like a hiding to nothing should Bayard attempt to force a meeting […]”

“It is a nasty situation and DFR knows that he is on a good hiding to nothing. He sometimes feels that he is the least understood and most unloved ATCO in [the UK]”

“This often makes it a nervous, hiding-to-nothing game in which disasters are so much more memorable than successes”

“Company directors are on a hiding to nothing when it comes to trusting their reputations to the accounting statements for which they are responsible.”

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