nothing sandwich

English

Noun

nothing sandwich (plural nothing sandwiches)

  1. (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?
    • 2011, Melody Davidson, Ain't Nothing Like Being Married to an Old, Elderly Man, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 50:
      Sometimes we be[sic] so broke, we would be in the house with no food. The both of us making a nothing sandwich.
  2. (figuratively) Synonym of nothingburger (something of less importance than its treatment suggests)
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