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Sound
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phrase
The indicated thing, person, or other matter has no distinctive identity, or no significant characteristics, or no functional center point; nothing significant exists in that place; nothing significant is occurring in that situation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From a remark by Gertrude Stein in Everybody's Autobiography (1937), concerning the fact that her childhood home in Oakland, California, no longer existed.
