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how to understand to no avail I tried to make them comfortable, but to no avail. I wonder why "to no avail" can use like this. why "no avail' can use after "to". I can understand.
May 17, 2016 10:56 PM
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"to no avail"... This is an idiom to express something that is done in vain, without concrete results, unsuccessfully.
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