fuck all
15
9.9
- idiom
- /fʌk ɔl/
- Offensive
:
una mierda
- I've been watching for hours and you've done fuck all!
- know fuck all
- say fuck all
- fuck all else
So my question is, is like you've won fuck all for a long time.
- So my question is, is like you've won fuck all for a long time.
- Well, I mean, I mean, Logan's team did fuck all.
- So I'm not letting no man tell me fuck all.
- You want to just stay in bed and do fuck all, but that's just going to make things worse.
- All these memories that we're sharing right now mean fuck all.
- So I basically ate fuck all and a few bits of salami and olive wine.
- They knew I was up to fucking everything, but they they couldn't prove fuck all.
- Not planned, you know, But the pandemic's a classic example for some people, you know, fuck all going on.
- It feels like all of these things that kind of wrap around the sensation that have fuck all to do with cold electricity and citrus and shit.
- But I didn't do the standard way everyone else did it, selling shitty jpegs and now they were fuck all.
- If you've got fuck all, get content with fuck all, everything's a bonus and you watch your fucking smile grow.
- So so you're encouraged to solipsistically consume the idea of yourself as being a good member of society whilst doing fuck all.
Examples
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Where's Dawn?" Sheila said, "I know fuck-all about Dawn.
Fiction book (1995) -
I go around to shops, hand out a bunch of CVs, and I get fuck all response.
Blog text (8) -
Yeah, you know fuck all about me.
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But Ray knows fuck all.
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If you two come in here, you see sweet fuck all.
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However, I'm also well aware that Congress is going to do fuck all about the problem.
Blog text (29) -
You want to just stay in bed and do fuck all, but that's just going to make things worse.
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I personally think it's absurd to think that voting, not voting, or voting for a third party means fuck all.
Blog text (25) -
You know fuck-all about what I want, what's best for my future.
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After hours of work, I realized I've accomplished fuck all today.
Synonyms
4
9.9
Very little or nothing
1
9.9
A very rude way to say you have nothing at all
Nothing at all, often said as a rude way to show you mean it
Nothing at all is left
A way to say you have nothing or very little
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
fuck + all
Knowing the literal meanings of 'fuck' (an obscene expletive/verb) and 'all' (the whole) does not allow a B1 learner to predict the idiomatic sense 'nothing at all'—the phrase is a vulgar, colloquial quantifier where the usual compositional logic is disrupted. The meaning is learned usage and register-dependent rather than transparently built from the constituents, so prior exposure is needed.
Etymology
Fuck all comes from putting the swear word fuck before all to make a sharp image of having 'nothing at all'. The rude word makes the meaning stronger, so people use fuck all to say they have very little or nothing.