neither here nor there

Idioms and Phrases

Unimportant, irrelevant, as in You pay for the movie and I'll get the dinner check, or vice versa—it's neither here nor there . This expression was first recorded in 1583. Also see beside the point .

Example Sentences

We are introduced successively to the Palestinian, the Assimilator, and the Neither-here-nor-there.

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Swinburne dismisses him in two lines: Maximilian is a good-natured, neither here-nor-there kind of youth.

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The neither-here-nor-there expression still rankled in Gizzard's memory, and now Sube was adding vinegar to the wound.

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