mission impossible
Doomed from start
A mission impossible is a task that seems utterly unachievable—the kind of assignment you might refuse or accept only with the understanding that failure is likely: Getting him to apologize is a mission impossible.
The phrase gained currency from the long-running spy franchise, though it now applies to any daunting undertaking from workplace projects to personal goals.
- secret agentClandestine government operative
- unattainableImpossible to acquire
- chargeCost or accusation
- point of no returnThreshold beyond which reversal impossible
- taskWork to be done
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- Spy Fictionspy, secret agent, double agent, MI6, CIA
- futilityfutile, futility, in vain, pointlessness, vain
mission impossiblesure thing
Guaranteed outcome or agreement
piece of cake · cakewalk · slam dunk · done deal · child's play
mission impossiblesure thing
Guaranteed outcome or agreement
foregone conclusion · safe bet · certainty · lock · dead cert
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