Meaning of thing of nothing | Babel Free

Definitions

Something trivial, of no importance.

Ireland, archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“shall then that thing that honours thee― how miserable a Thing soever, yet a Thing still ; and though a Thing of nothing, thy Thing ever”

“All the arguments I can use⟳ to induce you to take⟳ notice⟳ of this thing of nothing is that it had the luck to tumble last⟳ of all in the epidemical ruin of the scene, and now limps hither with a wooden leg to beg⟳ an alms at your hands.”

“A good Christian has no business with such things of nothing, or worse.”

“Mind⟳ you, I was more prophetic than I thought when I asserted that these millions were nothing to a Government like⟳ Fianna Fáil, but the Taoiseach came out in Fermoy on the next Sunday and said that the £22,000,000 was only the remnants of Marshall Aid—the tailor's clippings, only a thing of nothing.”

“You which rejoice in a thing of nothing, which say⟳, Have⟳ we not taken to us horns by our own⟳ strength?”

“2009 July 23, "Lynnie" "Sisley Instant Perfect: Meh. Whelming." beaut.ie My foundation might have⟳ lasted fractionally longer than usual, but honestly it was a thing of nothing.”

“It was only a five-second delay⟳, a thing of nothing in the wider scheme of things, but it was one of those moments you wished would last⟳ forever.”

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