what's the good of (doing) something?

what's the good of (doing) something?
what’s the good of/what good is (it)/(doing) something? spoken phrase
used for saying that you do not think something will give you any benefit

What’s the good of writing them a letter? They never read them anyway.

Thesaurus: not effective or useful and not working correctlysynonym
Main entry: good

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