nonstarter
[non-stahr-ter]
- an issue, plan, etc., that does not get or deserve to get under way.
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Origin of nonstarter
First recorded in 1905–10
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loser, disaster, dud, bust, debacle, fiasco, washout, failure, nonstarter, miscarriage, lemon, bombExamples from the Web for nonstarter
Contemporary Examples
This plan has the virtue of relative simplicity, but is considered a nonstarter with Republicans.
End the tax-free status of employer health benefits: So many problems with this, I think we can all agree it's a nonstarter.
I know, at this point, that the first option is a nonstarter.
But Mitt Romney for president is a nonstarter, despite headquartering his campaign in the North End of Boston.
Yet even before the document became public, Republicans called it a nonstarter and dead on arrival.
nonstarter
- a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered
- a person or thing that is useless, has little chance of success, etc
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