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  • 31go for nothing — also {formal}[go for naught] {v. phr.} To count for nothing; be useless; be wasted. * /What the teacher said went for nothing because the pupils did not pay attention./ * /I hope that all your good work doesn t go for naught./ Compare: IN VAIN …

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  • 32Money for Nothing (disambiguation) — Money for Nothing may refer to: * Money for Nothing (song), a 1985 rock song by Dire Straits * Money for Nothing (album), a 1988 greatest hits album by Dire Straits * Money for Nothing (tribute band), UK based Dire Straits tribute band * Money… …

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  • 33Stories and Texts for Nothing — is a collection of stories by Samuel Beckett. It gathers three of Beckett s short stories ( The Expelled, The Calmative, and The End , all written in 1946) and the thirteen short prose pieces he named Texts for Nothing (1950 1952). All of these… …

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  • 34Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing — Single by Brooks Dunn from the album Borderline …

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  • 35Money For Nothing — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Money for Nothing est un roman de Pelham Grenville Wodehouse publié en 1928. Money for Nothing est une compilation des plus grands succès du groupe de… …

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  • 36Money for nothing — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Money for Nothing est un roman de Pelham Grenville Wodehouse publié en 1928. Money for Nothing est une compilation des plus grands succès du groupe de… …

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  • 37Money for Nothing — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Money for Nothing est un roman de Pelham Grenville Wodehouse publié en 1928. Money for Nothing est une chanson de Dire Straits sortie en 1985. Money for… …

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  • 38Money for Nothing (chanson) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Money for Nothing. Money for Nothing Single par Dire Straits extrait de l’album Brothers in Arms Pays …

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  • 39To go for nothing — Go Go, v. i. [imp. {Went} (w[e^]nt); p. p. {Gone} (g[o^]n; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Going}. Went comes from the AS, wendan. See {Wend}, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[=a]n, akin to D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[=e]n, g[=a]n, SW. g[*a], Dan. gaae; cf …

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  • 40you don’t get something for nothing — A variant of this, originally from the north country, runs you don’t get owt [anything] for nowt [nothing]. Cf. 1845 DISRAELI Sybil I. I. v. To do nothing and get something formed a boy’s ideal of a manly career. 1870 P. T. BARNUM Struggles &… …

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