Synonyms for fool's errand
fool's er·rand

Princeton's WordNet

1. fool's errandnoun

   a fruitless mission

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1. Heather Conley:

   Getting Russia to adjust its economic model, in my view, is a fool's errand.

2. Kellyanne Conway:

   Nobody's going to have a silver bullet, a magic elixir on stage at the CNN debate that dislodges Trump from the top of the polls. That's a fool's errand, it's incumbent upon these candidates to show contrast from other people's point of views, including Mr. Trump's.

3. Joe Biden:

   The answer is that I'm running the traps on this. I don't want to make this a fool's errand, i'm a lot closer than I was before Christmas, and we'll make the decision soon.

4. David Doniger:

   If he has any grasp of scientific and legal reality, he would realize that it's a fool's errand to reverse the endangerment determination, this could be a way for him to keep the right-wing fringe groups occupied and also accomplish the goal of further confusing the public debate.

5. John Boehner:

   But over the course of the August recess in 2013 and in September, a lot of my Republican colleagues who knew this was a fool's errand -- really, they were getting all this pressure from home to do this.