mission impossible

Etymology
From the television series , first broadcast in the 1960s.

Noun

 * 1) An extremely difficult, if not impossible, task.
 * 2) * 2001, United States Senate Committee on Finance, Globalization and American trade policy: hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, 107th Congress, first session, February 27, 2001, Volume 4, page 23,
 * Go out and educate and sell in the course of negotiating basic trade issues the mission impossibles.
 * 1) * 2013, Marshall Fine, Stand by Me, Engage Me, Gary Cameron, Marshall Fine, Sarah Maiter, Karen Frensch, Nancy Freymond (editors, Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Congruence with the Everyday Lives of Children and Parents, page 73,
 * The impediments to equitable service are: missions impossible, lack of preventive services, need for follow-up, and provider inconsistency.
 * 1) * 2013, Marshall Fine, Stand by Me, Engage Me, Gary Cameron, Marshall Fine, Sarah Maiter, Karen Frensch, Nancy Freymond (editors, Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Congruence with the Everyday Lives of Children and Parents, page 73,
 * The impediments to equitable service are: missions impossible, lack of preventive services, need for follow-up, and provider inconsistency.
 * 1) * 2013, Marshall Fine, Stand by Me, Engage Me, Gary Cameron, Marshall Fine, Sarah Maiter, Karen Frensch, Nancy Freymond (editors, Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Congruence with the Everyday Lives of Children and Parents, page 73,
 * The impediments to equitable service are: missions impossible, lack of preventive services, need for follow-up, and provider inconsistency.
 * The impediments to equitable service are: missions impossible, lack of preventive services, need for follow-up, and provider inconsistency.

Translations

 * Finnish: mahdoton tehtävä
 * French:
 * Greek: επικίνδυνη αποστολή
 * Portuguese: missão impossível

Noun

 * 1)  extremely difficult, if not impossible, task