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next to nothing

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next to nothing
Fig. hardly anything; almost nothing. This car's worth next to nothing. It's full of rust. I bought this antique chair for next to nothing.
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next to nothing
very little She knows next to nothing about politics. The town has done next to nothing about the parking problem.
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Emily questioned the woman who had been left in charge of the cottage, and found that she had next to nothing to tell.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Then the service began--rightly-considered, the most terrible, surely, of all mortal ceremonies--the service which binds two human beings, who know next to nothing of each other's natures, to risk the tremendous experiment of living together till death parts them--the service which says, in effect if not in words, Take your leap in the dark: we sanctify, but we don't insure, it!
Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context
It'll soon be three months, and I'm doing next to nothing.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
 
 
 
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