Idiom
sleeveless errand
Meaning
Synonym of fool's errand.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Searching for the lost keys in the dark is a sleeveless errand.”
“The manager sent the team on a sleeveless errand to find files that had already been deleted from the server.”
“He realized too late that his pursuit of the impossible promotion was merely a sleeveless errand, leaving him with nothing but wasted time and frustration.”
Examples
simple
“Searching for the lost keys in the dark is a sleeveless errand.”
contextual
“The manager sent the team on a sleeveless errand to find files that had already been deleted from the server.”
complex
“He realized too late that his pursuit of the impossible promotion was merely a sleeveless errand, leaving him with nothing but wasted time and frustration.”
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