nowhere near
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English[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- Not by a large margin, not nearly, not at all.
- He's not bad, but he's nowhere near as good as me.
- We have nowhere near enough money to buy you a car.
- 2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- England, defensively, were not good enough - nowhere near the standard that would be acceptable at the highest international level.
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References[edit]
- nowhere near (Check: CB, CD, CO, LX, LM, MM, MW, OL, TFD)
- “nowhere-not-anywhere-near” (US) / “nowhere-not-anywhere-near” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.