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Yurii |
08/12/03 |
Dear Rich,
Accept my gratitude for the most thorough treatment of my problems. Would you agree that the following expressions are not semantically equivalent though have
ONE meaning in common in which they are interchangeable:
of no avail
to no avail
of no avail - (used predicatively) useless; unsuccessful (also: of no effect): All their efforts to save him from his folly were of no avail.
to no avail - (also: to no effect) 1. in vain; without result: We pulled him out of the river and tried to revive him, but to no avail.
2. = of no avail: They searched for nearly an hour, but it was to no avail. The keys were nowhere to be found.
Many thanks,
Yuri
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