nowhere near

English

Adverb

nowhere near

1. Not by a large margin, not nearly, not at all.

   He's not bad, but he's nowhere near as good as me.

   We have nowhere near enough money to buy you a car.

   • 2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     England, defensively, were not good enough - nowhere near the standard that would be acceptable at the highest international level.

See also

• anywhere near

References

• nowhere near (Check: CB, CD, CO, LX, LM, MM, MW, OL, TFD)
• “nowhere-not-anywhere-near” (US) / “nowhere-not-anywhere-near” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.