nothing to write home about

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Pronoun

nothing to write home about

1. (idiomatic) Not exceptional; not noteworthy or especially good.

   The vegetables were okay, but the soup was nothing to write home about.

Synonyms

• no great shakes

Antonyms

• something to write home about

Translations

not exceptional

• Dutch: niets om over naar huis te schrijven
• Finnish: ei kovin kaksinen
• French: ce n’est pas le Pérou (fr), ça ne casse pas trois pattes à un canard
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• Russian: не о чем да́же рассказа́ть (ne o čem dáže rasskazátʹ)
• Spanish: nada del otro mundo (es), nada para tirar cohetes
• Swedish: inget att hänga på julgranen, inget vidare