fool's errand 的定义
- a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
fool's errand 近义词
等同于 red herring
等同于 practical joke
等同于 wild-goose chase
更多fool's errand例句
- What they found was that most people preferred to work with the lovable fool rather than the competent jerk.
- “A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
- “Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.
- In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.
- “The thing [North Korean government] want[s] the most is the non-release of this film,” Schiff said.
- The heat of drunkenness is the stumblingblock of the fool, lessening strength and causing wounds.
- The remarkable thing was that all the hurrying people she met seemed also each of them to be on a secret and mystic errand.
- Y was a Youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.
- Ajoutez cecy, s'il vous plaist, la grande difficult qu'il y a de tirer d'eux les mots mesmes qu'ils ont.
- I am not fool enough to put my precious Naps in jeopardy, just when I am so deucedly in want of them, too.