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Meaning of mug's game | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A foolish, profitless, or hopeless undertaking.

idiomatic

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Examples

“‘It's a mug's game,’ said Crabbe.”
The sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes the quest for defenses a mug's game.”
Although they aspired, like all natural-born gamblers, to taking a flutter and beating that system (they all loved the idea of tips, of course), they were sufficiently cynical to know it's a mug's game and that it was largely bound to fail.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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