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it's no use
1no use, it's
2It's impossible; it can't succeed. For example, It's no use; these pieces just don't fit . [c. 1800]
Also, it's no use to man or beast . It's worthless, it serves no purpose, as in This car is so old it's no use to man or beast . Also see have no use for .
Idioms and Phrases
see no use .Example Sentences
“Stop crying, it’s no use, it’s done now. They won’t blame us, we’ll just say what I told Julius, that we fell asleep and Boots disappeared.”
"I could only find gold, but that was no use – it's for women to put food on the table or send one child to school," he said, adding that "a diamond or a bigger salary" is necessary for feeding his family of six.
“No use—it’s all out, and all over town, if Bobby Hargrew got hold of it.”
“It’s no use, it’s no use,” she sighed.
“It’s of no use; it’s my usual ill luck, and it’s of no use to fight against it.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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