be on a hiding to nothing

There is no question that at the moment politicians talk tax, they are on a hiding to nothing.

But he was on a hiding to nothing really.

Especially playing some 3rd div side - we were on a hiding to nothing.

'But if Kevin keeps going, we are on a hiding to nothing.

Millar acknowledges that in one sense he is on a hiding to nothing.

Roy is on a hiding to nothing, just like Benitez was in his last year because the board don't invest.

They are on a hiding to nothing.

I don't know anything about the Syrian regime, but they only have to look around to see they are on a hiding to nothing.

Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing.

Magistrates who have to deal with international fraud and corruption inquiries on a daily basis are on a hiding to nothing.

'We'd be on a hiding to nothing,' said Joe, 'and that would probably include being shot at dawn.

Perhaps because he knows he is on a hiding to nothing, he is not pulling any punches.

"There were those who said anyone following in Don Revie's footsteps was on a hiding to nothing.

We know Brighton are on a hiding to nothing and Barry Lloyd's job will be on the line if we win.'

I don't like Palin but really, she was on a hiding to nothing with this project - it isn't good because it couldn't possibly have been good.

Between Michael Chessum desperately jockeying for a future Cabinet post and the Met muttering about baton rounds, it looks like any genuine protestor today is on a hiding to nothing.

Plus anyone who tries to lay down the law on how Shakespeare should be directed - or even, frankly, which text of Hamlet to use - is on a hiding to nothing, I think.

Politically we are on a hiding to nothing in the long run and so I guess the only satisfactory way forward would be to leave badgers completely alone and compensate farmers in full for badger-related losses, including consequential losses.'

When I saw the room, I immediately wanted to call the whole thing off, but the chap already had the cheque and I was on a hiding to nothing with my landlord so I would just have to put up with it.

BBC is on a hiding to nothing with this row but it does seem extraordinary to reject this play when Radio 4 ran a superb play on the Holocaust on the Sunday of the main advance on Gaza.

Also Central Banks had little or mostly no influence on the EU's disparate fiscal policies so in a globalised world arguably the ECB much like the BoE was on a hiding to nothing.

They are on a hiding to nothing and there are too many things they miss and too many false positives (the couple reported yesterday who had their children taken away three years ago - now reported that the couple were innocent but they can't get their children back).