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not anything like
Idioms and Phrases
Also, nothing like ; not anywhere near ; nowhere near . Quite different from, far from; also, not nearly. For example, The town's library isn't anything like the university's library , or His outfit was nothing like his brother's , or It isn't anything like as cold as it was last winter , or That movie isn't anywhere near as exciting as I thought it would be , or Her diamond is nowhere near as big as mine . The phrases with like date from the late 1700s, and those with near from the mid-1400s.Example Sentences
Well, except no, it’s not anything like that.
It's not, it's not anything like um a consensual adult who was using her agency to express her sexuality that doesn't exist.
That may not have quite kept up with inflation, which would have raised the justices’ pay to about $311,060 since 2009, but it’s not anything like the march backward experienced by those on the federal minimum wage.
D.C., he said, is “not anything like that.”
You can get an extremely mild case of influenza but certainly not anything like getting influenza itself.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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