fool's errand

A task that has little to no chance of being successful or beneficial. Giving the baby a bath before he eats spaghetti is a fool's errand.

A fruitless mission or undertaking, as in Asking the bank for yet another loan was clearly a fool's errand. [c. 1700]

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ganix	-	Basque
Aurel	ow-REL (German)	German, Romanian, Czech, Slovak
Elfrieda	-	English
Rajneesh	-	Indian, Hindi
Melania	me-LAHN-yah (Polish)	Italian, Spanish, Polish, Late Roman
Darina (1)	-	Irish