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not anything like



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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.
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Example Sentences

Well, except no, it’s not anything like that.

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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.

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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.

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D.C., he said, is “not anything like that.”

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You can get an extremely mild case of influenza but certainly not anything like getting influenza itself.

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