boondoggle |ˈboōnˌdägəl; -ˌdôgəl| informalnounwork or activity that is wasteful or pointless but givesthe appearance of having value : writing off the cold fusion phenomenon as a boondoggle best buried in literature.• a public project of questionable merit that typicallyinvolves political patronage and graft:: they each drew $600,000 in the final months of the greatboondoggle.verb [ intrans. ]waste money or time on such projects.ORIGIN 1930s: of unknown origin.
Sometimes I wonder if most book promos are boondoggles.
*snortlaugh*
ReplyDeleteBlog Tours should be renamed Boondoggle Tours.
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