NOTHINGBURGER Definition & Meaning

nothingburger

or noth·ing bur·ger

[ nuhth-ing-bur-ger ]

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an often highly publicized event or situation that is said to have less impact or significance than expected:
The meeting of world leaders turned out to be a big nothingburger.
a person of little or no importance; a nothing; a nobody:
She's a minor celebrity—a nothingburger.

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First recorded in 1950–55; nothing ( def ) + burger ( def )

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Functionally, she’s just prey, an appetizing nothingburger who, like the script, is little more than a string of illogical decisions.

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Regrettably, Jun-ho’s investigation is a nothingburger — at least this season.

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“There’s a narrative out there that the pandemic is over, that it’s a nothingburger,” Al-Aly said.

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"Ultimately, at the end of the day yesterday, it was just a big nothingburger," she said.

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“This was a nothingburger you will forget,” he said of that debate.

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