no future
idiom
: no chance to succeed
There is no future for you in this business.
You have no future in this business.
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The fact that Cunha has been offered what was Rashford’s No 10 shirt is as clear a sign as any that the England forward has no future under Amorim.
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Oliver Kay, New York Times, 5 July 2025
This is the way agriculture must go or there’s no future.
—Osayi Endolyn, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2025
He was honorably discharged and moved to Denver in 1949 after realizing there was no future in the Motor City for a Black man who played classical music, Steen said.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 17 June 2025
Nottage, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., spent countless hours in the city of Reading, Penn., interviewing workers of all ages in 2011 to understand how their lives were crippled as their jobs went elsewhere, leaving many with no future prospects.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
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Oliver Kay, New York Times, 5 July 2025
This is the way agriculture must go or there’s no future.
—Osayi Endolyn, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2025
He was honorably discharged and moved to Denver in 1949 after realizing there was no future in the Motor City for a Black man who played classical music, Steen said.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 17 June 2025
Nottage, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., spent countless hours in the city of Reading, Penn., interviewing workers of all ages in 2011 to understand how their lives were crippled as their jobs went elsewhere, leaving many with no future prospects.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
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“No future.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20future. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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