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View synonyms for neither here nor there

neither here nor there



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Idioms and Phrases

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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Example Sentences

We are introduced successively to the Palestinian, the Assimilator, and the Neither-here-nor-there.

Swinburne dismisses him in two lines: Maximilian is a good-natured, neither here-nor-there kind of youth.

The neither-here-nor-there expression still rankled in Gizzard's memory, and now Sube was adding vinegar to the wound.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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