Noun
whack-a-mole (countable and uncountable, plural whack-a-moles)
(idiomatic, chiefly Canada, US) The practice of trying to stop problems, etc., that repeatedly occur in an apparently random manner; also, the act of dealing with such matters in a piecemeal manner without achieving a complete solution.
Trying to get rid of spam e-mails is like whack-a-mole: as soon as you delete one, another appears.
Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It's like playing 'Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.' Lisa Ann Walter
But for most people I know, every day is a particularly exhausting combination of whack-a-mole, an obstacle course, and a flogging. Source: Internet
Texas Democrats are fired up this year, but they’re also weary from so much bad news for so long, like the moles in a whack-a-mole machine. Source: Internet
Obama then added: “If we try to do everything ourselves all across the Middle East, all across North Africa, we’ll be playing whack-a-mole.” Source: Internet
"Unfortunately, new in-browsing mining services keep popping up and it has become a game of whack-a-mole for the security industry. Source: Internet
“You can deal with something in one place and then it’s like whack-a-mole, it pops up somewhere else,” she said, adding that Caltrans suggested a regional study. Source: Internet