no-win situation
A situation certain to end in failure or disappointment, as in If the in-laws visit them or they visit the in-laws, either way they see it as a no-win situation. [c. 1960]
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How to use no-win situation in a sentence
Many of the individuals Yeshua-Katz spoke to commented on the no-win situation in which they found themselves.
And on Wednesday and Thursday, the USTA had put them in a no-win situation.
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