nothing to speak of

Idioms  

1. Not much, nothing worth mentioning, as in What's been happening in the stock market?—Nothing to speak of, or They've done nothing to speak of about publicity. This expression was first recorded in 1582.

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Example Sentences

"I had no pain, nothing to speak of, and then 'bam, I had a mouth cancer diagnosis'," he says.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2024

“Horror. There’s nothing to speak of, especially in the center,” 76-year-old Lyubov Chudnyk said of Lyman, the town she has lived in for 42 years.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2022

Gox would be revived, Mr. Powell said: “There are no assets, no brand. There is nothing to speak of to revive.”

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2014

No content, no tools, no open source support, nothing to speak of.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012

When I moved to Dallas in 1928, most buildings there were nothing to speak of either.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson