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mug's game noun a thankless activity UK, 1910- [T]his going with girls was a mug’s game, which strong, tough blokes like Bill and Waldo couldn’t be bothered with. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 37, 1947
- At the moment he disapporved thoroughly of himself, not for playing a mugg’s game with Boo, or with Nineteen Meyers either, but for letting himself wallow so long in the slough of self-pity. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 14, 1964
- [U]nless you’re Jack Nicholson don’t try climbing through a transom with a hard-on. It’s a mug’s game. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 68, 1985
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