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Idiom

not much of anything

Meaning

Very little; not a lot.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“There is not much of anything in the fridge for dinner.”

“After searching through the old storage boxes, I found not much of anything worth keeping.”

“Despite the long hours spent investigating the abandoned house, the detectives discovered not much of anything that could serve as useful evidence.”

Examples

simple

“There is not much of anything in the fridge for dinner.”

contextual

“After searching through the old storage boxes, I found not much of anything worth keeping.”

complex

“Despite the long hours spent investigating the abandoned house, the detectives discovered not much of anything that could serve as useful evidence.”

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