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| what would be the use? (For what would be the use? What would it profit him to renew their acquaintance? Just twisting the knife in the wound, that's what he would be doing. (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) | |||
| what's the point? (Andrey Truhachev); what's the sense of +V-ing (Andrey Truhachev) | |||
| what's the use? (выражение отчаяния) | |||
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| what's the point of + gerund? (This town is no different from anyplace else. So what's the point of leaving? – Какой смысл отсюда уезжать? ART Vancouver); it's no use (+ gerund; It's no use talking about it. What's done is done.) | |||
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| what's the point? (Жениться, купить дом, завести детей, внуков, ...выйти на пенсию и умереть. What's the point? – There is no point...(Up in the Air) Dorian Roman) | |||
| какой смысл: 64 phrases in 15 subjects |
| Cliche / convention | 3 |
| Contextual meaning | 1 |
| General | 28 |
| Health care | 2 |
| Idiomatic | 3 |
| Informal | 5 |
| Logic | 1 |
| Makarov | 12 |
| Mass media | 1 |
| Mathematics | 1 |
| Psycholinguistics | 1 |
| Quotes and aphorisms | 2 |
| Rhetoric | 1 |
| Sakhalin | 2 |
| Scientific | 1 |