goat rope
the cure is worse than the disease
half-measure
sticking plaster
pseudosolution
nonsolution
cobra effect
puzzle
mystifier
teaser
puzzler
wing and prayer
solving
resolution
enodation
decipher
fudge
no-win situation
fail
resolve
dead duck
go nowhere
unmess
soluble
non-starter
crack
beef
yak shaving
unsolvable
dissolution
let the grass grow under one's feet
solutionlessness
dissolving
backtracking
blow up in one's face
kamikaze
no-win
resolvable
dissolve
break up
blow up
escape fire
solutional
scantle
solutionally
hit a wall
only
mis-
backfire
fall flat on one's face
take on water
premortem
die on the vine
remedilessness
require improvement
problematic
worm in the apple
go wrong
fight a losing battle
weakest link
a bad penny always turns up
flaw
ticket
bomb
square the circle
rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic
faultable
bottom fall out
way out
problem
do-or-die
resolvent
be riding for a fall
job
trial and error
scant
the jug goes to the well until it breaks
dead in the water
problematize
superwicked
pressure point
go out
that's done it
doom
problematicity
go down the toilet
exercise in futility
jinx
box oneself into a corner
mishandle
fall down
problemise
paint oneself into a corner
gronk
unriddle
misfix