Verb
go nowhere (third-person singular simple present goes nowhere, present participle going nowhere, simple past went nowhere, past participle gone nowhere)
(idiomatic) To fail to progress, to fail to attain a favorable result or outcome.
This project is going nowhere.
The negotiations went nowhere.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Carl Sagan
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. Jean Giraudoux
It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere. Sylvia Plath
The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything. Paulo Coelho
You can go home when you can go nowhere else. American Proverb