not anything like
not anything like
1. Completely unlike; not at all similar. This design isn't anything like what I had in mind—you'll have to just start over again. This rusty hunk of junk is not anything like the car you promised to get me!
2. A great deal less than; not nearly. I do pretty well in math, but I'm not anything like my older sister. She's a genius!
See also: anything, like, not
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
not anything like
Also, nothing like; not anywhere near; nowhere near. Quite different from, far from; also, not nearly. For example, The town's library isn't anything like the university's library, or His outfit was nothing like his brother's, or It isn't anything like as cold as it was last winter, or That movie isn't anywhere near as exciting as I thought it would be, or Her diamond is nowhere near as big as mine. The phrases with like date from the late 1700s, and those with near from the mid-1400s.
See also: anything, like, not
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
- junk mail
- junk food
- full-tilt boogie
- whittle away
- jonx
- clear (someone or something) out of (some place)
- clear out of some place
- (I) told you (so)
- I told you so
- bring (one) up on (something)