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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

go for nothing en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To have no value, or carry no weight with someone.
    • And I tell you they are promises that go for nothing. 1926, Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi), page 333:
    • Is not your friend's business your own business? What does friendship mean if it is not so? And when I tell you that it is my business, mine of right, does that go for nothing with you? 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
goes for nothing Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
gone for nothing Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
going for nothing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
went for nothing Tense=Past lexicographic