to no avail

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

to no avail

1. (idiomatic) With no success or benefit; unsuccessfully.
   • 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 August 2019:

     Germany huffed and switched angles and went wide, slinging in crosses, and finally sending on Der Targetman, Mario Gomez, for the last 11 minutes. To no avail, as Mexico held on for a sensational win against the defending champions.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: tuloksetta, turhaan
• French: sans succès, en vain (fr)
• Greek: μάταια (el) (mátaia), εις μάτην (el) (eis mátin)
• Polish: bez skutku
• Russian: безуспе́шно (ru) (bezuspéšno), безрезульта́тно (ru) (bezrezulʹtátno)

See also

• to little avail
• to no end

Anagrams

• avolation, ovational