go nowhere

idiom

: to make no progress
The research is going nowhere.
We're going nowhere fast.

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Pages and pages of dialogue go nowhere and carry no real meaning. Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025 But there is an underlying fear in Geneva that the reinvigorated talks here, the first formal meetings with Iranian representatives since the escalation of the Israel-Iran conflict, will still go nowhere. Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 20 June 2025 Although the resolution will go nowhere in the House, the passage with GOP support marked the first signs of a legislative success in pushing back against Trump’s agenda. Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 6 Apr. 2025 Up-front pricing transparency on the venders’ Knot profile pages could potentially eliminate some of these leads that go nowhere and this mutually assured destruction of one another’s time. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for go nowhere

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“Go nowhere.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20nowhere. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.

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