of no use

Time passes with destructive fury, even if clocks and calendars are of no use to anybody.

“It’s like a worker when he’s all used up and the boss gets rid of him because he’s of no use anymore.”

The Sierra Club of Hawaii complained the state exploited the tragedy to help a private company monopolize water, noting that east Maui reservoirs were of no use to west Maui, where a wildfire killed at least 101 people.

Those seedlings were of no use in the mountainous and coastal West, with its cedars, firs and Ponderosa pines.

"As a citizen of Gaza, this stuff is of no use," he said.