nothing of the sort

idiom

: nothing like that

—used to object to something or to deny something

"I'm quitting school." "You'll do nothing of the sort!"

"You said you would give me a loan." "I said nothing of the sort."

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Fortunately for the guests and crew, nothing of the sort happens. —

Emma Soren, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2024 Your iCloud Storage Is Nearing Capacity—Please Click Here To Upgrade The emails being sent to iPhone users through services such as Apple Mail, Gmail and Outlook claim to be from Apple but, as with all such phishing scams, are nothing of the sort. —

Davey Winder, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 Locke and Barnes’s discourse, one of the few sequences here with on-screen dialogue, does nothing of the sort. —

Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024 Yet the thought that brought the most dread was that there would be nothing of the sort, only generous accounts. —

Nicolette Polek, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for nothing of the sort

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“Nothing of the sort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nothing%20of%20the%20sort. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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