nothing to

idiom

1
: no truth to (something)
There's nothing to the story/claim.
2
: of no interest, value, or importance to (someone)
Money is nothing to them.
He's nothing to me now.

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For instance, investors would invest in Union government IOUs and with this money in the Treasury, the Union government printed paper money with nothing to back it but the promise of victory. David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025 Of course, going back to Adam and Eve's family, there's been plenty of bitterness at the local and household level, most of which has nothing to do with politics. Paul Prather, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2025 MacBook with an Intel Core i5 CPU and 8GB RAM gave me nothing to complain about. PC Magazine, 15 Nov. 2025 For years, middlemen like Plaid paid nothing to tap bank systems when a customer wanted to use a fintech app like Robinhood to draw funds or check balances. Hugh Son, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nothing to

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“Nothing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nothing%20to. Accessed 22 Nov. 2025.

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