not anything like

Idioms  

1. Also, nothing like; not anywhere near; nowhere near. Quite different from, far from; also, not nearly. For example, The town's library isn't anything like the university's library, or His outfit was nothing like his brother's, or It isn't anything like as cold as it was last winter, or That movie isn't anywhere near as exciting as I thought it would be, or Her diamond is nowhere near as big as mine. The phrases with like date from the late 1700s, and those with near from the mid-1400s.

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not anything like

“It’s not anything like 95% are tired of her. But I think it’s a good strong majority.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2022

It was not anything like the fantasy of a volcano we all imagined when we flew to Iceland.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

The cause of this embetterment came from nature, he argued, not anything like industrial carbon dioxide pollution.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2021

She called Maxwell a "scapegoat," and added, "She is not Jeffrey Epstein. She is not anything like Jeffrey Epstein."

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2021

In further violation of the code, Lippmann was quick to let people know that whatever he’d been paid by his employer was not anything like what he’d been worth.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis