next to nothing

English

Pronoun

next to nothing

1. Very little.

   I got it for next to nothing in the January sales.

   He pretends to be knowledgeable, but actually he knows next to nothing.

Derived terms

• next-to-nothingness

Translations

very little

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微乎其微 (zh) (wēihūqíwēi)

• Finnish: melkein ilmaiseksi (of money, "almost free"), ei juuri mitään (fi)
• French: trois fois rien (fr)
• German: so gut wie nichts, fast nichts
• Greek: τζάμπα (el) (tzámpa), φθηνά (el) (fthiná)
• Italian: quasi niente, una miseria
• Japanese: ほとんど何もない (ほとんどなにもない, hotondo nani mo nai)
• Polish: prawie nic
• Russian: почти́ ничего́ (počtí ničevó)
• Spanish: casi nada
• Welsh: y nesaf peth i ddim m

See also

• for a song