adj.
occurring completely or not occurring at all

make out of nothing Idiom, Proverb

double or nothing

double the first bet and if I win, I owe nothing "After losing the first bet, I said, ""Double or nothing this time?"""

good-for-nothing

not useful, useless I'll be glad when we sell that good-for-nothing truck.

here goes nothing

ready to begin - but it will be a waste of time and will probably fail Here goes nothing. I have already asked him to lend me some money and he always says no but I

in nothing flat

quickly I will have this information printed out for you in nothing flat.

nothing doing

I will not do it, certainly not, no indeed Nothing doing. I am not going to stay and work late again this evening.

nothing if not

without doubt, certainly He is nothing if not punctual. He has never been late in his seven years with this company.

nothing succeeds like success

one success leads to more success This is the first rule of learning: Nothing succeeds like success.

nothing to it

(See there's nothing to it)

nothing to sneeze at

something you should take seriously His new salary is nothing to sneeze at.

nothing to write home about

not special or spectacular, no great shakes He's a nice guy, but nothing to write home about.

make (something) out of nothing

1. To accession a fuss about article minor, trivial, or unimportant; to amplify or put too abundant focus on a accessory affair and accomplish it assume like a above one. (Often uses the absolute chat "something.") You got one B and you're acting like you're declining the class. You're authoritative article out of nothing, if you ask me. My adversary is aggravating to accomplish a big accord out of annihilation to abstract voters from his own failures.2. To actualize or assemble article useful, valuable, worthwhile, or absorbing out of actual little or a aggregate of contrarily abortive abstracts or parts. I anticipation the cupboards were about bare, but she managed to accomplish a adorable meal out of nothing! My brother is so creative—give him a accumulation of junk, and he'll accomplish an absurd allotment of art out of nothing.Learn more: make, nothing, of, out

make something out of nothing

1. Lit. to actualize article of amount from about abandoned parts. My uncle—he sells sand—made a affluence out of nothing. My archetypal aeroplane won the challenge alike admitting I fabricated it out of scrap.
2. Fig. to accomplish an affair of article of little importance. Relax, John, you're authoritative a big botheration out of nothing. You accept no evidence. You're authoritative a case out of nothing.Learn more: make, nothing, of, out

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not with it not worth a plugged nickel notch below nothing doing nothing if not nothing succeeds like success nothing to it nothing to sneeze at nothing to write home about nothing ventured, nothing gained now and then now or never nuke nukes number-cruncher number is up number one