not anything to write home about
not anything to write home about
To be not especially remarkable or noteworthy; to be rather dull, mediocre, uninteresting, or unimportant. A variant of the more common phrase "nothing to write home about." A: "Have you eaten in that new sushi restaurant yet?" B: "Yeah, I went there last week. It was OK, but it isn't anything to write home about." His performance hasn't been anything to write home about so far. To be honest, we were expecting much more from him when we recruited him out of Dartmouth.
See also: anything, home, not, write
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- not something to write home about
- not worth writing home about
- be nothing (much) to write home about
- be nothing to shout about
- be nothing, not much, etc. to write home about
- nothing to shout about
- nothing to write home about
- nothing to boast about
- not much to boast about
- not anything to boast about