go/get/head nowhere
C2 to not have any success or achieve anything:
I'm trying to persuade her to come, but I'm getting nowhere.
Bad manners will get you nowhere (= will not help you to succeed).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unsuccessful (people and things)
- abortive
- achiever
- barren
- be dead in the water idiom
- botched
- counterproductive
- flatline
- frustrated
- futile
- inauspicious
- lame duck
- no-win
- small-time
- stillborn
- struggling
- the doldrums
- unavailing
- unglued
- unpromising
- washed up
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