n.: get nowhere, fall on stony ground, avoidance, cut not much ice with sb., cut not much ice, cut no ice with sb., cut no ice, make nonsense of, bring to nought, nulland void, objection overruled, vitiation, null and void, unvalid, of no avail, uselessness, pointlessness, futility, in vain, noneffective, fruitlessness, idleness, impotence, ineffectualness, inefficacy, inefficiency, invalidation, invalidity