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neither here nor there

Idioms  
  1. 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.


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"The film remains imitation western - neither here nor there".

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

This is neither here nor there, but my brother and I have developed this tradition of watching older "Top Chef" seasons whenever he's home for the holidays.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2024

He found ways of presenting human bodies in his videos that were utterly lifelike but in a kind of suspended state of neither here nor there.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

That the songs are good to begin with — chunky, hooky, belty, dancy — is neither here nor there; they generally are, in shows like this, or there would be no audience to pander to.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022

But all that was neither here nor there.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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