not something to write home about

not something 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 something to write home about." His performance hasn't been something 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: home, not, something, write
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • not anything 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
References in periodicals archive
That's not something to write home about, but it is a massive improvement on last season when they won just once after Christmas.