Term: mug's game: a futile or unprofitable endeavor
Candidate hypernym: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something → 1
Candidate hypernym: colloquium: an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting → 0
Candidate hypernym: principle of relativity: (physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred → 0
Candidate hypernym: false nettle: any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs → 0
Candidate hypernym: alarm: a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event → 0
Candidate hypernym: kingpin: the most important person in a group or undertaking → 0
Candidate hypernym: psychopsis krameriana: orchid of South and Central America having flowers similar to but smaller than Psychopsis papilio; sometimes placed in genus Oncidium → 0
Candidate hypernym: jacobin: a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution → 0
Candidate hypernym: schnook: (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised → 0
Candidate hypernym: platte river penstemon: erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems; Idaho to Utah and Wyoming → 0
Candidate hypernym: squeamishness: the trait of being excessively fastidious and easily shocked → 0