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have something/nothing to show for something
idiom
If you have something/nothing to show for your work or effort, you have/have not won any advantage from it: 从…中受益／一无所获
I worked for two weeks, and $50 was all I had to show for it.我工作了两星期，所得到的酬劳只有50美元。
I've been trying to write this essay all day and I have nothing to show for it.我一整天都在努力写这篇文章，可是没什么进展。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Failing and doing badly
abjectly
at-risk
backbencher
balls (something) up
be on your beam endsidiom
blow (someone/something) up
bomb
egg
flog
flog a dead horseidiom
flop
flub
flunk out
founder
mess
running on emptyidiom
sclerotic
screw
screw (something) up
sign someone's death warrant
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