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Have no effect or influence on one, as in Ned's attempts at humor were lost on Meg , or David's kindness was not lost on his aunt . This expression uses lost in the sense of “wasted.” [c. 1600] Also see you've lost me .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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