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sweet fuck all

sweet fuck all

1 9.9
A very rude way to say you have nothing at all
  • idiom
  • Offensive
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  • What in the sweet fuck all does tone trolling have to do with taking sides?

Examples

  • You won't get sweet fuck all from him if you don't ask for it.

  • I'll argue against any regulation that primarily affects me and does sweet fuck all to actually address the causes of violence.

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  • After all the effort I put in, I ended up with sweet fuck all to show for it.

  • He promised to help, but in the end, he gave me sweet fuck all.

Synonyms

nothin
vssweet fuck all
  • Informal
19 9.9

Not anything or zero

is vulgar and strongly emphatic absolute nothing rather than plain zero
fuck all
vssweet fuck all
  • Offensive
15 9.9

A very small or no amount of something

is absolute nothing rather than possibly a very small amount
eff all
vssweet fuck all
  • NSFW
9.9

Nothing at all, often said as a rude way to show you mean it

is vulgar and emphatic rather than polite or euphemistic
sweet Fanny Adams
vssweet fuck all
  • Archaic
9.9

Nothing at all is left

is a vulgar and blunt absolute form rather than a milder idiom

Antonyms

everything
∞ 1.0

All the things or all that someone has

Surface Forms

sweet fuck all singular
sweet fuck alls plural

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.