no use
noun1
Condition of being pointless, useless, not worth doing, especially because it is not likely to succeed.
- It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours.1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I:
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Colloquial No point or advantage.
- No use crying over spilt milk.
- There is no use in studying medicine if there are too many doctors already.
4 more examples
- Explaining things to you is of no use because you never listen.
- That clock isn't any use: it keeps losing time.
- It's no use you/your apologizing now: it is too late.
- Well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe If e'en you don't know by now An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don't ever do somehow.1962, Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right:
- Derived terms
- have no use for, it's no use, no use crying over spilt milk, it's no use crying over spilt milk, there's no use crying over spilt milk, there's no use
- Related terms
- what's the use