nothing sandwich

English edit

nothing sandwich (plural nothing sandwiches)

(informal) A bland sandwich with nothing, or very little, between the bread.
- year unknown, Who Owns The Planet, Sermon On The Flats (→ISBN), page 516:
  Why then is this thin slice of something wedged between volumes of nothing called a something instead of a nothing sandwich?
- 2011, Melody Davidson, Ain't Nothing Like Being Married to an Old, Elderly Man, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 50:
  Sometimes we be^[sic] so broke, we would be in the house with no food. The both of us making a nothing sandwich.
(figuratively) Synonym of nothingburger (something of less importance than its treatment suggests)