to no effect

Meaning

1. not producing the result you intend or hope for

   We warned them, but to no effect.

In the movies · 163

• the effect is irreversibleTranscendence2014
• The positive effect?Up in the Air2009
• It's a side effect of dying.The Fault in Our Stars2014
• It's patter. It's for effect.Moneyball2011
• The effect of education perhaps.Mansfield Park1999
• Jekyll, no effect on target. No effect.War of the Worlds2005
• The effect on the victimizer.Halloween2018
• This motor uses the Casimir effect.Atlas Shrugged: Part I2011

Learn it in full scenes

• Atlas Shrugged: Part I2011
  • Dagny Defies James Over Rearden Metal
  • Dagny and Rearden's Metal Deal
  • Rearden Gives Lillian a Metal Gift

From the same entry

• bring into effect
• come into effect
• in effect
• take effect
• to the effect that
• to good, great, dramatic, effect
• with immediate effect