nothing sandwich

plural nothing sandwiches

1. informalA bland sandwich with nothing, or very little, between the bread.

   Sometimes we be^([sic]) so broke, we would be in the house with no food. The both of us making a nothing sandwich.

   2011, Melody Davidson, Ain't Nothing Like Being Married to an Old, Elderly Man, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 50

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   Why then is this thin slice of something wedged between volumes of nothing called a something instead of a nothing sandwich?

   year unknown, Who Owns The Planet, Sermon On The Flats, page 516

2. figurativelySynonym of nothingburger (something of less importance than its treatment suggests)

   Synonyms: nothingburger