what good

idiom

—used to say that one does not think that something is helpful, useful, or worth doing

What good is a college education when you can't get a job after you graduate?

What good does it do to bring an umbrella along if you are only going to leave it in the car?

I could try talking to him, but what good would that do/be? He has already made up his mind.

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Crucially, alongside these visions of what constitutes good care sit equally useful ideas about what good care is not. —

Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2024 The Bears deserve credit for doing what good teams do. —

Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2024 The Democratic Party and its leaders need to stop the nonsense about age and a single debate and concentrate on emphasizing what good Biden has done for this country in three and a half years. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 July 2024 Our people have a horse sense for what good work is. —

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