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not for nothing

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not for nothing

for a good reason. Not for nothing is New York City called the fashion capital of the world.

Opposite of: for nothing

See also: nothing

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Your father has laughed at me, but you and I, dear, know that such things are not for nothing. Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context Not for nothing had he been exposed to the pitiless struggles for life in the day of his cubhood, when his mother and he, alone and unaided, held their own and survived in the ferocious environment of the Wild. White Fang by London, Jack View in context men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context More results

References in classic literature

Your father has laughed at me, but you and I, dear, know that such things are not for nothing.

Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

Not for nothing had he been exposed to the pitiless struggles for life in the day of his cubhood, when his mother and he, alone and unaided, held their own and survived in the ferocious environment of the Wild.

White Fang by London, Jack View in context

men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable.

The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

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not day
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not for the life of me
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not give a hoot
not give a rat's ass
not give a shit
not give the time of day
not hack it

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not for a moment

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not for nothing

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Not For Resuscitation (see DNR)

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Not for the Faint of Heart!

not for the life of me

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