have nothing to do with

Idioms  

1. Also, not have anything to do with.

2. Be irrelevant, be unrelated, as in Their visit has nothing to do with the holiday . [Early 1600s]

3. Avoid, as in Dad insisted that we have nothing to do with the neighbors, or I won't have anything to do with people who act like that . [Early 1600s] Also see have to do with .

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Example Sentences

"I believe in relationships. Those are personal relationships, they have nothing to do with commercial considerations," Aziz said.

From BBC

She heads back down the stairs, and I wish I could escape into someone else’s fictional world with problems that have nothing to do with me—but I make myself pick up.

From Literature

“That is the power of that medium and it can work both ways. It can also make other people tremendously successful who have nothing to do with music.”

From The Wall Street Journal

A second argument by Mr. Hemani is that these precedents fail the Bruen test because they’re too far afield, really “a hodgepodge of dissimilar regulatory regimes, most of which have nothing to do with the ‘misuse of firearms.’”

From The Wall Street Journal

"Our analyses demonstrate that these sign sequences have nothing to do with the writing systems of today, which represent spoken languages and are characterized by high information density. In contrast, the signs on the archaeological objects are frequently repeated -- cross, cross, cross, line, line, line. This type of repetition is not a feature found in spoken language," he says.

From Science Daily

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