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Good work with shed is to come to nothing (2,4)

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I believe the answer is:

go phut

'to come to nothing' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'good work with shed' is the wordplay.
'good' becomes 'g' (abbreviation).
'work' becomes 'op' (abbreviation for opus).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'shed' becomes 'hut' (I've seen this before).
'g'+'op'+'hut'='GO PHUT'

'is' acts as a link.

(Another definition for go phut that I've seen is " fail".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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