Sentence examples for get him nowhere from inspiring English sources
Treading gingerly will get him nowhere.
Going straight for the owners will get him nowhere.
He wasn't brave enough for larceny, acting was just "talking posh" and his great love, ornithology, would get him nowhere fast.
They go from "Lee is doing very well" in the early days, to the headmaster's comment on my last report: "Lee will soon realise that joking around in class will get him nowhere". In a way, he was right, as a lot of hard work goes into comedy.
Although his father reckoned golf would get him nowhere, O'Connor later began to make some extra money for his hard-pressed family by caddying, and at the age of 23 he was appointed assistant professional at Galway, moving two years later to the nearby Tuam course, where he also worked on the ground staff.
He quickly realised that protests would get him nowhere.Andrei Illarionov, Mr Putin's economic adviser until he resigned in protest against rising authoritarianism, says Mr Putin was well aware that Russia faced threats from the south and the east, not from the west.
The gesture got him nowhere.
But that base got him nowhere.
Hopkins kicked up, but it got him nowhere.
This worked for him as Attorney General, but got him nowhere in running the state.
