Timeline for Word for a task which is flawed or doomed to failure but which you have to do anyway?
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| Nov 21, 2014 at 14:05 | comment | added | cHao | Course, the word might be a page long. It's like they just take sentences and remove the spaces. That's cheating :) | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 18:47 | comment | added | ajacian81 | The germans have a word for everything. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 15:59 | comment | added | WernerCD | de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelfahrtskommando -> google Translation -> basically: suicide mission (= Suicide Mission), glory-or-grave-job (fame-or-grave-order) or suicide squad (= suicide mission, literally: "suicide squad"). Some good corollaries there | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 7:54 | comment | added | skymningen | In German there is the nice word "Himmelfahrtskommando" which exactly meets the OPs requirements. A task where you know it will fail even before starting it. It is translated to "forlorn hope". | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 7:13 | history | answered | Fillet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |