nothing sandwich

English

Noun

nothing sandwich (plural nothing sandwiches)

1. (informal) A bland sandwich with nothing, or very little, between the bread.
   • year unknown, Who Owns The Planet, Sermon On The Flats (→ISBN), page 516:

     Why then is this thin slice of something wedged between volumes of nothing called a something instead of a nothing sandwich?

   • 2011, Melody Davidson, Ain't Nothing Like Being Married to an Old, Elderly Man, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 50:

     Sometimes we be^[sic] so broke, we would be in the house with no food. The both of us making a nothing sandwich.

2. (figuratively) Synonym of nothingburger (something of less importance than its treatment suggests)

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