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
Stanford	STAN-fərd	English
Kawacatoose	-	Native American, Cree
Kaui	-	Hawaiian
Merete	-	Danish
Vlad	VLAHT (Russian)	Russian, Romanian, Medieval Slavic
Perdue	[pə:'dju:]