not get anywhere
Definition
› to not make progress toward a goal: His parents tried to talk him out of joining the army, but they didn’t get anywhere.
(Definition of not get anywhere from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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not by any stretch of the imagination idiom
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not cut it idiom
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not get to first base idiom
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not give someone the time of day idiom
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not have a leg to stand on idiom
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not have the heart (to do something) idiom
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