"à quoi bon" meaning in French

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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "intj",
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "àquoibonisme"
        },
        {
          "word": "àquoiboniste"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "What good is it to hold back if you want to get out of your own way, shout out your love, sublimate it in words and deeds: that moment when everything seems beautiful, where all ideological and religious \"interference\" drowns in the waves of deep, passionate feeling.",
          "ref": "2022 February 14, “Saint Valentin : La métaphore magique de notre ouverture”, in Le Soleil, archived from the original on 2022-12-04:",
          "text": "A quoi bon se retenir si on a envie de se désopiler, de crier son amour, de le sublimer par le verbe et par le geste, cet instant-là où tout paraît beau où toutes les « interférences » idéologiques et religieuses se noient dans les flots de sentiments passionnels et profonds.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what good is it? what's the good of? what's the point?"
      ],
      "id": "en-à_quoi_bon-fr-intj-f2SwpM1N",
      "links": [
        [
          "what good is",
          "what good is"
        ],
        [
          "what's the good of",
          "what's the good of"
        ],
        [
          "what's the point",
          "what's the point"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) what good is it? what's the good of? what's the point?"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a kwa bɔ̃/"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "à quoi bon"
}

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    {
      "word": "àquoibonisme"
    },
    {
      "word": "àquoiboniste"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "intj",
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        "French informal terms",
        "French interjections",
        "French lemmas",
        "French multiword terms",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "What good is it to hold back if you want to get out of your own way, shout out your love, sublimate it in words and deeds: that moment when everything seems beautiful, where all ideological and religious \"interference\" drowns in the waves of deep, passionate feeling.",
          "ref": "2022 February 14, “Saint Valentin : La métaphore magique de notre ouverture”, in Le Soleil, archived from the original on 2022-12-04:",
          "text": "A quoi bon se retenir si on a envie de se désopiler, de crier son amour, de le sublimer par le verbe et par le geste, cet instant-là où tout paraît beau où toutes les « interférences » idéologiques et religieuses se noient dans les flots de sentiments passionnels et profonds.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what good is it? what's the good of? what's the point?"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "what good is",
          "what good is"
        ],
        [
          "what's the good of",
          "what's the good of"
        ],
        [
          "what's the point",
          "what's the point"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) what good is it? what's the good of? what's the point?"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a kwa bɔ̃/"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "à quoi bon"
}