not anything like

Idioms and Phrases

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.