not any good
idiom
: not effective or useful
I tried to convince him to change his mind, but it wasn't any good. He wouldn't listen to me.
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Since most of these leads were not any good, sales ignored us.
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Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
Thoman: Over the long term, there’s not any good, hard evidence of the intensity of these storms increasing.
—Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2022
Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
Thoman: Over the long term, there’s not any good, hard evidence of the intensity of these storms increasing.
—Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2022
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