Ääntäminen
AU
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (idiomatic, British, informal) A situation in which victory has little or no value, but defeat has a huge cost.
Yritit hakea fraasilla, joka sisältää useita sanoja. Parempien hakutulosten saamiseksi kokeile hakea sanoja erikseen: hiding, to, nothing
Samankaltaisia sanoja
Esimerkit
- It would have been madness to encourage them to back the mare : in fact I was on a hiding to nothing whatever happened.
- It is a nasty situation and DFR knows that he is on a good hiding to nothing. He sometimes feels that he is the least understood and most unloved ATCO in [the UK]
- No legitimate excuse for introduction existed, or could exist, and the odds looked like a hiding to nothing should Bayard attempt to force a meeting […]
- This often makes it a nervous, hiding-to-nothing game in which disasters are so much more memorable than successes
- Company directors are on a hiding to nothing when it comes to trusting their reputations to the accounting statements for which they are responsible.
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