Meaning of nothing sandwich | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bland sandwich with nothing, or very little, between the bread.
   informal
2. Synonym of nothingburger (something of less importance than its treatment suggests)
   figuratively

Examples

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

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

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