lost cause
noun1
Idiomatic A person or thing that is hopeless or futile.
- He has already made up his mind, and it's a lost cause to try to change it.
- Artfully pulling the ball back to leave McCleary chasing a lost cause, Sánchez calmly made space for a shot and applied a finish that beat the despairing dives of both Federici and Michael Hector, the latter vainly attempting to recover position when it was too late.2015 April 18, Paul Wilson, The Guardian:
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- I get the sense that it's a lost cause / I get the sense that you might really love her / This text gon' be evidence, this text is evidence / I tried to ration with you, no murders or crimes of passion, but damn2022, “Kill Bill”, in SOS, performed by SZA:
- Synonyms
- sinking ship
- Derived terms
- Lost Cause
- Related terms
- forlorn hope, no-hoper