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fool's er·rand
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fool's errandnoun
a fruitless mission
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Getting Russia to adjust its economic model, in my view, is a fool's errand.
The Bible says beware of false prophets. And there are people out there, you know, spreading noise about how much can get done. I mean this whole notion that we're going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013 -- this plan never had a chance, but over the course of the August recess in 2013 and in September, a lot of my Republican colleagues who knew this was a fool's errand -- really, they were getting all this pressure from home to do this.
If he has any grasp of scientific and legal reality, he would realize that it's a fool's errand to reverse the endangerment determination, this could be a way for him to keep the right-wing fringe groups occupied and also accomplish the goal of further confusing the public debate.
Nobody's going to have a silver bullet, a magic elixir on stage at the CNN debate that dislodges Trump from the top of the polls. That's a fool's errand, it's incumbent upon these candidates to show contrast from other people's point of views, including Mr. Trump's.
But over the course of the August recess in 2013 and in September, a lot of my Republican colleagues who knew this was a fool's errand -- really, they were getting all this pressure from home to do this.
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