what good

idiom

—used to say that one does not think that something is helpful, useful, or worth doing

What good is a college education when you can't get a job after you graduate?

What good does it do to bring an umbrella along if you are only going to leave it in the car?

I could try talking to him, but what good would that do/be? He has already made up his mind.

Examples of what good in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Crucially, alongside these visions of what constitutes good care sit equally useful ideas about what good care is not. —Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2024

The Bears deserve credit for doing what good teams do. —Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2024

The Democratic Party and its leaders need to stop the nonsense about age and a single debate and concentrate on emphasizing what good Biden has done for this country in three and a half years. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 July 2024

Our people have a horse sense for what good work is. —Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024