nothing sandwich
English
Noun
nothing sandwich (plural nothing sandwiches)
- (informal) A bland sandwich with nothing, or very little, between the bread.
- year unknown, Who Owns The Planet, Sermon On The Flats (→ISBN), page 516:
- Why then is this thin slice of something wedged between volumes of nothing called a something instead of a nothing sandwich?
- 2007, FCS physical science L2, Pearson South Africa (→ISBN), page 14:
- Student Taste with pinched Taste without In OSE pinched nose Nomvula No taste Salty, tasty Sithande Hardly any taste Strong, cheese-like - zola Food tastes like | Fine, like a cheese nothing sandwich
- 2011, Melody Davidson, Ain't Nothing Like Being Married to an Old, Elderly Man, AuthorHouse (→ISBN), page 50:
- The both of us making a nothing sandwich. Now that's sad as hell, but I'm still living here. I feel sorry and sad. The sex was good, he had my mind. An old man should not be in debt. That's not normal, not only that, I don't know what's up with ...
- year unknown, Who Owns The Planet, Sermon On The Flats (→ISBN), page 516:
- (figuratively) Synonym of nothingburger (something of less importance than its treatment suggests)