sweet fuck all
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9.9
- idiom
- Offensive
:
ni mierda
- What in the sweet fuck all does tone trolling have to do with taking sides?
Examples
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You won't get sweet fuck all from him if you don't ask for it.
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I'll argue against any regulation that primarily affects me and does sweet fuck all to actually address the causes of violence.
Blog text (6) -
After all the effort I put in, I ended up with sweet fuck all to show for it.
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He promised to help, but in the end, he gave me sweet fuck all.
Synonyms
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9.9
Not anything or zero
15
9.9
A very small or no amount of something
Nothing at all, often said as a rude way to show you mean it
Nothing at all is left
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
sweet + fuck + all
The meaning 'absolutely nothing' cannot be derived compositionally from 'sweet' + 'fuck' + 'all'; here 'fuck' and 'sweet' function as intensifying/idiomatic elements rather than literal contributors, and the phrase is a fixed vulgar idiom. A B1 learner who knows the individual words would not reliably predict this specific idiomatic meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Sweet fuck all began as a rude, stronger way to say 'nothing' when people added sweet to the plain phrase fuck all, which already meant 'nothing'. So the image of getting 'absolutely nothing' is what gives the phrase its meaning today.