Idiom
go nowhere
Meaning
To fail to progress, to fail to attain a favorable result or outcome.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This project is going nowhere.”
“We have been arguing about the budget for hours, but the conversation is going nowhere.”
“Despite the team's exhaustive efforts to resolve the technical dispute, the negotiations were clearly going nowhere and required immediate mediation.”
Examples
simple
“This project is going nowhere.”
contextual
“We have been arguing about the budget for hours, but the conversation is going nowhere.”
complex
“Despite the team's exhaustive efforts to resolve the technical dispute, the negotiations were clearly going nowhere and required immediate mediation.”
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