no earthly use
no earthly use
1. No conceivable or practical use. It's very sweet that you bought me a laptop, dear, but I'm 85—I have no earthly use for one of those things!
2. Not feasible or worth trying. I've told him how bad those cigarettes are for him, but it's no earthly use trying to argue with that man!
See also: earthly, no, use
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- no earthly (something)
- no earthly use, reason, etc.
- no earthly reason
- You pays your money and you takes your chance
- you pays your money, and you takes your chance(s)
- dear to (one's) heart
- dear me
- Dear me!
- cheapest is dearest
- not stand an earthly