Nothing if not

Definition

nothing /'nʌθÇŋ/ neg pron နတၳိ။ ဘာမွ်မရိွ။ မရိွျခင္း။ a box with nothing in it ❍ Nothing (else) matters to him apart from his job. ❍ I've had nothing to eat since lunchtime. ❍ There's nothing you can do to help. ❍ The doctor said there was nothing (serious) wrong with me. ❍ There is nothing as refreshing as lemon tea. ❍ Their chances of winning had faded to nothing. ❍ ‘What's that in your pocket?’ ‘Oh, nothing (ie nothing important, nothing that concerns you). ’ ❍ It used to cost nothing to visit a museum. ❍ (infml) He's five foot nothing (ie exactly five feet tall). ❏ be nothing to sb [IDM] ဘာမွ်မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး။ I used to love her but she's nothing to me any more. ❏ for nothing [IDM] ၁။ အခမဲ့။ အလကား။ We could have got in for nothing—nobody was collecting tickets. ၂။ အလဟႆ။ အခ်ည္းႏီွး။ All that preparation was for nothing because the visit was cancelled. ❏ have nothing on sb [IDM] (infml) ၁။ … ေလာက္ မေကာင္း။ ညံ့သည္။ Today's pop music has got nothing on the old Broadway musicals. ၂။ အမႈလုပ္ရန္ ခိုင္လံုေသာ အေၾကာင္းမရိွ။ They can't arrest him because they've got nothing on him. ❏ not for nothing [IDM] အလကားမဟုတ္။ အေၾကာင္းရိွ သည္။ အဓိပၸာယ္ရိွသည္။ Not for nothing was he called the king of rock and roll. ❏ nothing but [IDM] မွ်သာ။ သာလွ်င္။ မွတစ္ပါး။ အျခား…။ His speech was nothing but hot air. ❍ Nothing but a miracle can save her now. ❍ I want nothing but the best for my children. ❏ nothing if not [IDM] (infml) အလြန္တရာ။ သိပ္ကို။ The trip was nothing if not varied. ❏ nothing less than [IDM] (လြန္ကဲသည့္ သေဘာ၊ ႀကီးက်ယ္သည့္ သေဘာကိုျပသည့္ စကား)။ တစ္ျပားသားမွ် မေလွ်ာ့ဘူး။ His negligence was nothing less than criminal. ❍ It was nothing less than a disaster. ❏ nothing like [IDM](infml) ၁။ လံုးဝမတူ။ It looks nothing like a horse. ၂။ လံုးဝမ…။ Her cooking is nothing like as good as yours. ❍ I had nothing like enough time to answer all the questions. ❏ nothing much [IDM] မ်ားမ်ားစားစားမဟုတ္။ အေရးမႀကီး။ မည္မည္ရရ မဟုတ္။ There's nothing much in the fridge. ❍ I got up late and did nothing much all day. ❏ nothingness n [U] ဘာမွ်မရိွျခင္း။ the desert's endless expanse of nothingness ❍ Our spirits dissolve into nothingness. ❏ nothing to it [IDM] ဘာမွ်မခက္။ လြယ္လြယ္ကေလး။ I did the crossword in half an hour — there was nothing to it. ❏ there is/ was nothing (else) for it (but to do sth) [IDM] မွတစ္ပါးအျခားမရိွ။ …ကလြဲလို႔ဘာမွ်မရိွ။ There was nothing else for it but to resign.

Examples

1. There was nothing in the room except for a mattress.
2. She waited and watched
3. but nothing happened.
4. [nothing at all] : I knew nothing at all about looking after babies.
5. [nothing else] : The smoke alarms were working
6. but it seemed nothing else was.
7. [nothing new/strange/wrong etc] : I saw nothing strange in the situation.
8. There’s nothing wrong with tourism – it’s good for business.
9. [nothing to do/eat/drink etc] : The kids complain that there’s nothing to do there.
10. Some of them had had nothing to eat for three days.
11. You’re just making a fuss about nothing.
12. Do I mean nothing to you?
13. A minor headache is nothing to worry about.
14. [nothing much] : ‘What did you do while I was gone?’ ‘Nothing much.’
15. The car is worth nothing now.
16. Our team beat the Eagles
17. four – nothing.