mug's game
informal
noun
A thankless task; a useless, foolish, or unprofitable activity.
Origin
Early 20th century.
- attention-getting
- attention-grabber
- attention-grabbing
- attention-seeker
- attention-seeking
- attention span
- attentive
- attentively
- attentiveness
- attenuate
- attenuated
- attenuation
- attenuator
- atter
- attest
- attestable
- attestation
- attestor
- at that
- at the best of times
- at the buzzer
- at the coalface
- at the door
- at the double (on the double)
- at the drop of a hat