NO BIG DEAL Definition & Meaning

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no big deal

[ noh big deel ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

idiom

Informal.

not important, impressive, or likely to be a problem:
The room was very nice, nothing too fancy, no big deal.
If I fail, it's no big deal—that’s sometimes the best way to learn how to do something.
(used ironically as an interjection to indicate that one considers something to be important or impressive):
No big deal, I’m just flying to Bermuda in my friend’s private jet!

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Origin of no big deal¹

First recorded in 1965–70

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As I reported earlier, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who earlier this year counseled Americans that Trump’s plans for relatively modest tariff increases were no big deal — “Get over it,” he advised — changed his tune in a his annual letter to JPM shareholders published Monday.

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No big deal, but only if you’re cool.

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The prospect that DOGE’s rampage through Social Security might delay benefit payments or even prevent beneficiaries from receiving them at all didn’t faze Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, a billionaire who volunteered on a podcast with two fellow plutocrats that sending Social Security checks or bank deposits out late would be no big deal.

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He has been playing this media game for over a decade: say something outrageous, even vicious and threatening; the press will react and say, along with their expert commentators, that it is far out, inappropriate and frightening; his supporters will say that it is no big deal, that he doesn’t really mean it, or, increasingly common, that after all, he is president.

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Is Walter so into Misty that a little murder is no big deal, or does he have ulterior motives?

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