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

The view itself was nothing to speak of — dumpsters, power lines, the occasional good dog sighting — but the light was generous, forgiving, the kind that makes even a chipped coffee mug glow like stained glass.

From Salon

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

From BBC

“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

“Now, our generation, what have we done? What do we have? We have nothing to speak of,” he said.

From Washington Post

And of course, we’re talking about a single, fully-exposed screen that you’ll be folding in half, with nothing to speak of on the other side of the phone.

From The Verge