make-work project
make-work project
A project with little value intended primarily to keep one busy. ("Make-work" is a name for such work, similar to "busywork.") A: "Why are you sorting all this paperwork?" B: "Ugh, it's some make-work project the boss has come up with to keep me occupied for the next couple of weeks."
See also: project
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- send (someone or something) from (some place)
- send from
- on its feet
- call off
- known quantity
- keep (someone) in the loop
- pill
- in the loop
- be in the loop
- loop