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Jyutping hou4 mou4 haau6 gwo2
Pinyin háo wú xiào guǒ

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. to no avail
  2. achieving nothing
  3. totally ineffective
  4. to have no effect
  5. to fall flat (esp. of joke or speech that is completely ignored)
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    这些问题对我们毫无效果。
    這些問題對我們毫無效果。
    zhè xiē wèn tí duì wǒ men háo wú xiào guǒ 。
    • We're getting nowhere with those problems.
    • These issues have no effect on us.