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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Moore and Qualley’s beauty is dangled in front of us and then chipped away at relentlessly, grotesquely, in a series of mean-spirited vignettes that do nothing to engender sympathy for these women, who are also the ones most responsible for the abuse. Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025 Years of debate, months of procrastination and weeks of panic have brought the U.S. to the brink of banning TikTok — a bipartisan achievement that top politicians suddenly want nothing to do with. Zachary Basu, Axios, 18 Jan. 2025 Peppered with leading questions about communist associations as screams echo in the halls outside the interrogation room, a distraught Eunice offers nothing to her captors. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025 The now late middle-aged siblings have also said that their mother knew of the abuse, and did nothing to protect them — as made clear in a letter to a cousin sent weeks before the killings occurred. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 17 Jan. 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 24 Jan. 2025.

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