suicide mission
No return expected
A suicide mission is an undertaking with virtually no chance of survival—the participants expect to die.
Military suicide missions send combatants on attacks from which return is impossible or improbable.
Figuratively, any task with overwhelming odds of failure: Asking the boss for a raise right now is a suicide mission.
The phrase emphasizes futility or extreme danger rather than literal death.
- kamikazeReckless to fatal extremes
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- martyrdomSuffering for conviction
- doomedDestined for destruction
- death sentenceJudicial order of execution
hopeless · desperate · do or die · one-way · point of no return · death wish · no return · heroic · blaze of glory · reckless · fatal · last stand · glory · explosive · pilot · volunteer · behind enemy lines · enemy lines
- death idiomsdead end, dead serious, dead wrong, dead tired, dead weight
- missionschurch planting, apostle, convert, apostleship, evangelization
- long shotslong shot, longshot, long odds, dark horse, underdog
suicide missionmilk run
Easy, low-risk mission
walk in the park · cakewalk · training exercise · sure thing · extraction mission
suicide missionrescue operation
Coordinated effort to save endangered
rescue mission · relief mission · humanitarian mission · search and rescue · peacekeeping mission
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