who needs (something)

what was mentioned is not important or helpful.

I wouldn't do it for the money — who needs money?

Usage notes: often used in the forms who needs it or who needs that: My wife suggested therapy, but I've always thought, therapy, who needs it?

He never returned my phone calls — who needs that?

Related vocabulary: you don't need this

• be coining it
• be cold comfort
• be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• be coming apart at the seams
• be comme il faut
• be compos mentis
• be conspicuous by absence
• be conspicuous by your absence
• be cooked to a turn
• be cooking on gas
• be cup of tea
• be cut from the same cloth
• be cut to the bone
• be damned
• be damned if do and damned if don't
• be damned if do and damned if you don't
• be damned if you do and damned if don't
• be damned if you do and damned if you don't
• be dead and buried
• be dead from the neck up
• be dead from the waist down
• be dead in the water
• be dead meat
• be dead on feet
• be dead on your feet