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nothing
noun- something US
Also shortened to “nothin”. A reversal of sense on the model BAD - N[oreaga]–I’ll jump in the crowd and suck a bitches titties and make her suck my dick after. It’s nothing. It’s nothing. LSD–It’s nothing. N- It’s nothing. — Life Sucks Die, Spring 2000
- What you wanna do, nigga? (Nothin’) What you trying to do? (Nothin’) — N.O.R.E. Nothin, 2002
- no more than (the height specified) AUSTRALIA
Used to emphasise shortness. - [He was] skinny as a rake with bulbous eyes, five feet nothing but as game as a terrier and cunning as a fox. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 162, 1971
▶ have nothing on
to be greatly inferior to something or someone US, 1906- Stan and Ollie have nothing on Weymouth wits. The double act of chairman Ian Ridley and his manager Steve Claridge were the undoubted stars of BBC2’s very funny Football Diaries. — Guardian, 10 May 2004
▶ nothing shaking
nothing happening US- [I]f a wop is deported he goes crazy. There’s nothin’ shakin’ outside the U.S.A. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 86, 1975
▶ nothing to write home about; nothing worth writing home about
unremarkable UK, 1914
Probably military in origin.- Moby’s taste in literature is nothing to write home about, either. — Guardian, 14 February 2003
▶ thank you for nothing!; thanks for nothing!
used in refusal or dismissal of help or advice: I owe you no thanks for that and scorn the offer UK, 1969- “So Ish-Bosheth gave orders and had her taken away from her husband Paltiel son of Laish” 2 Samuel 3:15 [...] We can imagine her snarling, “Pish-posh, Ish-Bosheth! Thanks for nothing, brother of mine.” — Liz Curtis Higgs, Bad Girls of the Bible, p. 206, 1999
▶ you aint seen nothing yet!; you ain’t heard nothing yet!
no matter how impressive or extreme something may be there is better or worse yet to come US, 1919
A catchphrase made famous by the singer Al Jolson in the first “talkie” film, The Jazz Singer, 1927. Especially popular with advertising copywriters.- She looked at me with her big brown eyes and said / you ain’t seen nothing yet... / b-b-b-baby you just aint seen n-nothin yet / Here’s somethin your just never gonna forget, / b-b-b-b- baby you just aint seen n-n-nothing yet. — Bachman Turner Overdrive, Aint Seen Nothing Yet, 1974
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