sb can't win
informalused to say that nothing someone does in a situation will succeed or please people:
Whatever I do seems to annoy her - I can't win.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not hopeful
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- chance
- defeatist
- dejected
- dim
- give up on sb/sth
- glum
- grim
- hiding
- hope
- lose
- negative
- negativity
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism
- pessimistic
- prophet
- win
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