nothing burger
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See also: nothingburger and nothing-burger
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]nothing burger (plural nothing burgers)
- Alternative form of nothingburger
- 2000 September, Lucinda Rosenfeld, “Jason Barry Gold, or ‘The Varsity Lacrosse Stud’”, in What She Saw […], New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, Random House, published September 2001, →ISBN, page 60:
- That's how ugly she was—ugly by virtue of the fact that she was unmemorable, a slab of alabaster awaiting a sculptor who never arrived, a "nothing burger" if there ever was one.
- 2017 June 28, Greg Price, quoting Van Jones, “CNN's Van Jones Calls Trump-Russia Story ‘Nothing Burger,’ Newest Project Veritas Video Shows”, in Newsweek[1], New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-22:
- The two shake hands and Jones is asked: "What do you think is going to happen this week with the whole Russia thing?" Jones responds: "The Russia thing is just a big nothing burger."
Adjective
[edit]nothing burger (comparative more nothing burger, superlative most nothing burger)
- Alternative form of nothingburger
- 1970, Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the New Single Girl, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Bernard Geis Associates, →OCLC, page 186:
- Well, I think better a splendid fake than those little-bitty, itsy-poo nothing burger gold dinkies you wear only because they're real.