Sentence examples of "bon à rien" in French

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Translations: all7 useless2 good-for-nothing1 other translations4
Pour une fois dans ma vie je fais un bon geste... Et ça ne sert à rien. For once in my life I'm doing a good deed... And it is useless.
Pour une fois dans ma vie je fais une bonne action... Et ça ne sert à rien. For once in my life I'm doing a good deed... And it is useless.
Ces bons à rien de paresseux ont été licenciés. Those good-for-nothing layabouts were sacked.
Qui m'appelle « bon à rien » ? Who calls me "good for nothing"?
Quand j'étais gamin, j'étais bon à rien. When I was a kid, I was all thumbs.
Pourquoi s'embêterait-elle à aider un bon à rien comme toi ? Why would she go out of her way to help a deadbeat like you?
Il va de soi que les gens ne veulent pas de la guerre. Pourquoi un pauvre bon à rien dans une ferme voudrait risquer sa vie dans une guerre lorsque le mieux qu'il peut en retirer est de revenir dans sa ferme en un seul morceau ? Naturellement, les gens du commun ne veulent pas de la guerre ; ni en Russie, ni en Angleterre, ni en Amérique, pas non plus en Allemagne, en l'occurrence, ça va de soi. Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.
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