not much to choose from

not much to choose from

A very limited availability or selection of choices in a given group or range of things. I couldn't get to the store for their sale until late in the day, and by the time I arrived there wasn't much left to choose from. I just felt like there wasn't much to choose from on the menu. You could either get one kind of curry or another, and that was about it.
See also: choose, much, not
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • not anything to choose from
  • nothing to choose from
  • restrict
  • restrict (someone or something) to (someone or something)
  • restrict to
  • select from
  • select from (something)
  • pick from
  • couldn't care less
  • I couldn’t care less
References in periodicals archive
Not much to choose from ( probably the pick of them was Hill's left-foot drive into the sidenetting midway through the second half.
Again, not much to choose from ( Ward did not have a save to make and Sunderland hardly troubled Nash.
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SHOT OF THE MATCH: Not much to choose from ( Daryl Murphy's close-range finish for the equaliser was as good as any.
Late leveller provides a timely Spur