make (a) nonsense of

idiom

British

: to cause (something) to no longer be effective : to take away the value or usefulness of (something)

The lack of guards makes a nonsense of the security checkpoint.

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Both an origin story and a topsy-turvy script-flipping, the drama, which has enough cliffhangers to make nonsense of a topographical map, sympathizes with Moriarty and savages Holmes. —New York Times, 6 July 2022