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it's no use

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it's no use (doing something)
it is hopeless to do something; it is pointless to do something. It's no use trying to call on the telephone. The line is always busy. They tried and tried, but it was no use.
See also: use

it's no use also there's no use
there is no reason to It's no use asking me about it because I don't know anything. There's no use resisting someone so much stronger than you are.
See also: use


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He then chucked the reins and flipped about with the whip, saying, "Now, then, it's no use playing the old soldier with me; there's the journey to go, and it's no use turning lame and lazy.
what should be leaving my room, as I advanced to enter it, but--well, it's no use, resolutions are all very well, but facts are facts, especially when they're natural, and here was I face to face with the most natural little natural fact, and withal the most charming and merry-eyed, that-- well, in short, as I came to enter my room I was confronted by the roundest, ruddiest little chambermaid ever created for the trial of mortal frailty.
But it's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.
 
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