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nowhere
adjective- unaware of what is happening, extremely naive, utterly at a loss US, 1843
- — Arnold Shaw, Lingo of Tin-Pan Alley, p. 15, 1950
- He decided that his wife was a burden to him and that the life he was leading in California was nowhere. — Chandler Brossard, Who Walks in Darkness, p. 6, 1952
- I think trees are nowhere, and grass is about as dull as it can get.. — Max Shulman, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, p. 42, 1959
- Man, if you hadn’t heard those spools of Royo Dehn’s you were not with it at all, were as square as John Home from Rome, really nowhere. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 165, 1961
- “I’m sorry,” I repeated, “but this scene is nowhere.” — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 234, 1963
- Man, your puritanical putdown of people who are trying a healthier attitude toward sex and girls is nowhere. — Murray Kaufman, Murray the K Tells It Like It Is, Baby, p. 54, 1966
- ... he thought to himself, she was nowhere! I mean, she didn’t even know what was happenin’ to her when it was comin’ down. — Donald Goines, Inner City Hoodlum, p. 88, 1975
- badly defeated in a race; utterly unsuccessful, to be out of the running US, 1853
- Although he came nowhere in BBC2’s Great Britons poll, [Benjamin] Franklin regarded himself as an Englishman until the war of independence began in his 70th year[.] — Guardian, 27 September 2003
- without money GUYANA, 1998
Usually in the phrase “ain’t nowhere”. Collected by Richard Allsopp.
▶ get nowhere fast
to try hard to do something and yet be frustrated in your endeavour UK, 1984- [H]oards of disgruntled customers who attempt to complain to Europe’s largest low-cost airline and get nowhere fast. — Guardian, 7 January 2002
▶ the middle of nowhere
any place that is remote, any place that is an inconvenient distance away from urban “civilisation” or your personal lifestyle requirements UK, 1960- At first glance, the dreary rows of jerry-built sheds in the middle of nowhere look very much like sheds for factory-farmed animals[.] — Guardian, 3 January 2003
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