go for nothing

If she saw him, then everything would go for nothing.

All the work of this last year would go for nothing.

If anyone else heard what was going on, all their hard work might go for nothing.

Had all the pain of the past gone for nothing?

If they gave up now, all their efforts would go for nothing.

But without the eyes, the rest of it could go for nothing.

He did not want to go for nothing, to be quickly forgotten.

Which all went for nothing: he didn't notice any change.

All those months of recruiting and training gone for nothing.

All her efforts with the settlers would go for nothing now.

It seemed as if good intentions went for nothing in this world.

I wasn't going to let all my hard work go for nothing."

He was so slow that all his strength went for nothing.

All his long years of service gone for nothing!

And now was all that to go for nothing?

You must keep yourselves safe, or it will still go for nothing.

Are all my pains to go for nothing with that coffin?

Then all his planning and scheming would have gone for nothing.

In that case, all our worry has gone for nothing."

"The work we've done at the observatory has gone for nothing," was the bitter answer.

What are we doing this for, if it is all to go for nothing?

The fact of her having lived with Fawley goes for nothing.

But now I feel satisfied that his blood didn't go for nothing."

If a man's no good in the box, then all the careful work he does here goes for nothing."