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But you spoilt it all with a smile! My efforts were all useless.
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The speaker says that the other person’s smile ruined the result of everything they had tried to do. The exclamation shows strong disappointment: despite their efforts, the smile made those efforts feel useless.
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- Evangelical Review of Theology, vol. 22, no. 4
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