everything vs nothing
Definitions
- colloquial Many or most things.
Examples
Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least.
‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
I admire the inventiveness, and while not everything is a raging success, there's a lot to like.
Definitions
noun
- a quantity of no importance
adverb
- in no respect; to no degree
Examples
Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
There's nothing at all wrong with a bit of human imperfection here and there.
