in vain
in vain: useless, without the desired result
Examples of IN VAIN
- The last-minute get-out-the-vote effort was in vain, because the opposition candidate still lost.
- The director didn’t even see me, so all the rehearsing I did was in vain.
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to go around
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to call for
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to drop out of
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to take for granted
to take for granted: not to appreciate fully; to assume to be true withoutgiving much thoughtA noun or pronoun often follows the verb take. Examples of TO TAKE FOR GRANTED Most citizens in Africa do not have these luxuries we take for granted. These people are being careless and taking for granted the lives that…
to talk over
to talk over: to discuss or consider a situation with others Examples of TALK OVER In fact, Yemenis get together to talk over a chew and it is a very social event. To talk over a poem with him is like getting you to put a sentence into dialect.