| 单词 | to do no good |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do no good (b) to do no good and variants: to come to no good result; to make no progress; to fail to thrive or succeed. ΚΠ 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 314 He finding no good to be done with me, began [etc.]. a1784 S. Johnson in H. L. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson (1786) 208 His learning does no good, and his wit..gives us no pleasure. 1855 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 16 i. 29 The animal..falls out of condition; he appears ‘to do no good’, to use a familiar..phrase. 1921 A. A. Milne Sunny Side in Those were the Days (1929) (ed. 2) 700 Johnny will never do any good at Polwollop, I fear. 1992 Caribbean Week Apr. 25/4 Pleas from native Indian groups around the Caribbean, including the Carib chief in Dominica, did no good. 2011 H. Pool Stranger in Taiwan 15 Although one of my duties was to help calm the trainees down before their observed practice, it rarely did any good. < as lemmas |
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