What is the idiomatic way to describe this in the US?
When you really studying or doing a certain thing for a long period time but the results do not show that you did put efforts into it.
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You might say something like this:
- All my efforts came to [resulted in / brought] nothing.
- All my efforts went up in smoke [went up in the air]. (may not be an exact match)
- Nothing came of my efforts / Nothing came of all the effort I put in.
"to come to", "to result in", "to come of" are phrasal verbs.
"to go up in smoke", "to go up in the air" are idioms for disappearing suddenly leaving nothing behind".
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Fruitless. For example, my studying efforts were fruitless because I failed the test.
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... nothing to show for his hard work.
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