a fool's errand

In an interview with The Atlantic magazine, the top U. S. diplomat accused China "of trying to stop history, which is a fool's errand. "

Gibbs: Jack, it's a fool's errand. Well, you know better than me the tales of the Black Pearl.

It was a death wish, a fool's errand, and he had never courted death or been a fool.

So I'd agree with you. A fool's errand, no doubt about it.

"One hopes that these things are useful, " he said, "but it can be a fool's errand to try to detect any immediate use for them. "

Trying to single out financiers from entrepreneurs is a fool's errand: you will end up hurting both.

But trying to legislate trade balance is a fool's errand.

The people who advised to come to me for money sent you on a fool's errand. I never lend money.

Micro-optimizing the steps of an inefficient algorithm is a fool's errand.

Certainly it's a fool's errand to try to catch the market's twists and turns.

A fool's errand . . . but so is chipping at a blank concrete wall for twenty-eight years.

He bristled at Pollan's statement that turning the "ecological clock to 1492 is a fool's errand, futile and pointless to boot. "

Even in quiet times, predicting the paths of exchange rates is a fool's errand.

Caesar wouldn't pull a hair for his eagle. You're on a fool's errand.

Do you think we're on a fool's errand?

A fool's errand, you say.