Term: no-win situation: a situation in which a favorable outcome is impossible; you are bound to lose whatever you do
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: camel's hair: a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: sweet pepper: plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: pleurocarp: a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: ground snake: small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: whitlowwort: any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: hyperacusis: abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: volley: a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: juju: a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: cut: the division of a deck of cards before dealing
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: lift: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground