a fool's errand

an attempt to do something that has no chance of success Billions of dollars have been spent on long-range weather forecasting, but it's a fool's errand.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Golshan	-	Persian
Clytia	-	Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Tatjana	TAHT-yah-nah (Finnish)	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish
Huntley	['hʌntli]
KrzyŚ	KZHISH	Polish
Eachann	-	Scottish, Irish