thing of nothing
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.32 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "shall then that thing that honours thee― how miserable a Thing soever, yet a Thing still ; and though a Thing of nothing, thy Thing ever"
- "All the arguments I can use to induce you to take notice of this thing of nothing is that it had the luck to tumble last of all in the epidemical ruin of the scene, and now limps hither with a wooden leg to beg an alms at your hands."
- "A good Christian has no business with such things of nothing, or worse."
- "Mind you, I was more prophetic than I thought when I asserted that these millions were nothing to a Government like Fianna Fáil, but the Taoiseach came out in Fermoy on the next Sunday and said that the £22,000,000 was only the remnants of Marshall Aid—the tailor's clippings, only a thing of nothing."
- "You which rejoice in a thing of nothing, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?"
- "2009 July 23, "Lynnie" "Sisley Instant Perfect: Meh. Whelming." beaut.ie My foundation might have lasted fractionally longer than usual, but honestly it was a thing of nothing."