not for nothing
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.51 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, for, nothing.
Example Sentences
- "Not for nothing did he wait until a moment when Mommy wasn't home to ask for Daddy's permission to watch an R-rated movie."
- "Not for nothing is it called the World Wide Wait. Not for nothing has a Dilbert cartoon appeared noting that all the time saved through automation and computers in the last fifty years has been entirely outweighed by people sitting in front of pc's waiting for web pages to load."
- "It is not for nothing that linguistics began with morphology and for a couple of centuries was practically nothing more than morphology."
- "But not for nothing had Hopkins trailed Grant from Wigmore Street to the Orient offices, and from the Orient offices to the Temple, and from the Temple to the Yard. Not for nothing had he cooled his heels round the corner while his paid henchman kept watch on the Yard and gave him the sign when Grant left. Not for nothing had he followed him all the way to Westover."
- ""It is not for nothing that airlines recommend keeping seat belts loosely fastened throughout a flight be it long or short," he added."
- "A: It's ridiculous how much they charge for insurance premiums around here. B: Not for nothing, when one out of four homeowners in an area has filed a claim within the past five years, premiums aren't gonna be cheap."