: to be fruitless : result in failure
all their efforts came to nothing
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come to nothing
1. To have little or no result
2. To turn out a failure
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Main Entry: ↑nothing
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have no significant or successful result in the end
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come to ˈnothing | not ˈcome to anything idiom
to be unsuccessful; to have no successful result
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How sad that all his hard work should come to nothing.
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Her plans didn't come to anything.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.