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Brewer's: Futile
(2 syl.) is that which will not hold together; inconsistent. A futile scheme is a design conceived in the mind which will not hold good in practice. (Latin, futio, to run off like water, whence futilis (See Scheme.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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