nothing burger

A form of nothingburger — An unimportant person; a nobody, a nonentity.

Meanings

nounnothing burger (plural nothing burgers)

plural nothing burgers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of nothingburger.

    That's how ugly she was—ugly by virtue of the fact that she was unmemorable, a slab of alabaster awaiting a sculptor who never arrived, a "nothing burger" if there ever was one.

    2000 September, Lucinda Rosenfeld, “Jason Barry Gold, or ‘The Varsity Lacrosse Stud’”, in What She Saw […], New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, Random House, published September 2001, →ISBN, page 60
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    The two shake hands and Jones is asked: "What do you think is going to happen this week with the whole Russia thing?" Jones responds: "The Russia thing is just a big nothing burger."

    2017 June 28, Greg Price, quoting Van Jones, “CNN's Van Jones Calls Trump-Russia Story ‘Nothing Burger,’ Newest Project Veritas Video Shows”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2023
adjectivenothing burger (comparative more nothing burger, superlative most nothing burger)

comparative more nothing burger · superlative most nothing burger

  1. alternativeAlternative form of nothingburger.

    Well, I think better a splendid fake than those little-bitty, itsy-poo nothing burger gold dinkies you wear only because they're real.

    1970, Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the New Single Girl, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Bernard Geis Associates, →OCLC, page 186
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