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UK
/ˈɔːt/
]
[ US /ˈɔt/ ]
[ US /ˈɔt/ ]
NOUN
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a quantity of no importance
we racked up a pathetic goose egg
reduced to nil all the work we had done
I didn't hear zilch about it
it was all for naught
it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
How To Use aught In A Sentence
- I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- To supplement his income, he taught private voice lessons in his home and sang in a church choir.
- The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.
- Epsom showed a great deal of heart considering their lowly league position but there are days when courage counts for naught and this was one of them.
- As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
- They also caught a couple of large kingfish and many skipjack.
- Most of this I've written down to get my own thoughts in order before I start draughting letters to the media, but first I have a couple of weeks of university to catch up on… sheesh.
- Of course there's nothing wrong with necking a few beers and getting caught up in the buzz of the World Cup.
- I shall be glad when the last of my daughters is married off.