Word info

go for nothing

Verb

Meaning

go for nothing (third-person singular simple present goes for nothing, present participle going for nothing, simple past went for nothing, past participle gone for nothing)

To have no value, or carry no weight with someone.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. Leonard Cohen

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