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Failure - Wastefulness
Explore English idioms that relate to wastefulness, including "bark at the moon" and "toing and froing".
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to feel upset or regretful about something that has already happened and cannot be undone
to do good things and waste valuable resources for ungrateful people
(of a business) to reach a point that yields no success due to the profit being almost as equal as the costs
to try hard yet achieve very little or nothing at all
to avoid wasting one's time and energy by not trying to persuade or convince someone who is unlikely to change their opinion or behavior
to try to prevent something bad from happening after it has already happened
used when one has to return to the beginning of a process and redo the process after one's effort has failed
from one place or situation to another without a clear purpose or direction, often in a chaotic or haphazard manner
to unnecessarily adorn or decorate something that is already beautiful or perfect
to reach a point where it is unlikely or too difficult to make any progress
to make a wrong decision about how to achieve or deal with something
to waste one's time and energy for something that has no chance of achieving success or yeilds no profit
to do something that is considered to be redundant or useless
to go through a series of efforts or actions only to end up back where one started, highlighting the lack of progress or meaningful change
the act of repeatedly talking or thinking about something without reaching a clear conclusion
used to refer to a task that is s very difficult or impossible to do
used when someone is doing something that is pointless or ineffective
used to describe a frustrating or unproductive conversation with someone who is unresponsive or uninterested
the outcome or reward of a task is not worth the effort or resources required to achieve it
