I. determiner
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
me neither
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I understood the running part, but it brought me neither honor nor status.
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When he turns up, he ain't going to want me neither.
neither ... nor ...
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I am neither a bailiff nor a tax-collector.
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I neither can, nor wish to, exclude the media from these proceedings.
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In all that time he had neither moved nor shown any interest in the rescue attempt.
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It is neither an obsession nor a projection of his mind, although it certainly does compel him.
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It was an incredible year, one in which the Suns were neither lucky nor good.
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Once they had got over the first shock, neither Bridget nor Tracey seemed able to take her story entirely seriously.
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The party and its leaders were defended neither by white nor blue-collar workers nor kolkhoz farmers.
neither fish nor fowl
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We were caught between two generations, neither fish nor fowl.
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Mr. Renton I disagree with my hon. Friend about the agencies being neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring.
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The hovercraft has always suffered from the fact that it is neither fish nor fowl.
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Yet officially we are demographically insignificant, neither fish nor fowl.
neither here nor there
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Art was neither here nor there; money was the issue.
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But that was neither here nor there.
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Dinner half an hour earlier or later was neither here nor there.
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She and Carolan had no children, but that was neither here nor there as an indication of matrimonial harmony nowadays.
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Start worrying when we're neither here nor there.
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That he was not in the category ordained by the Marketing Department for the evening was neither here nor there.
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The cost would be borne by Grunte Accessories, but that was neither here nor there.
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We are the holy ones, the voyagers, the people of the crossing, neither here nor there.
II. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
know
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He neither knew nor cared who had been evicted from it and left destitute.
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Typically, layoffs comb out the young, eager employees and leave behind the deadwood-in jobs they neither know nor want.
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It was a bleak farewell. Neither knew if they would ever see each other again.
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And it occurred to me that I neither knew how many the family owned nor how difficult mine would be to replace.
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Woman awoke to see him coming. Neither knew what had happened.
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He knew neither what to write nor how to write it.
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Most neither know nor care, which makes it worse.
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I neither knew nor cared whether my distress for him was based on love for a man or love for a patient.
look
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The car purred on, the driver looking neither to left nor right, the picture of inscrutability.
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She neither looked at him nor answered him.
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He neither looked nor felt as awful as he deserved.
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Stiarkoz slowly stood up, looking neither unsettled nor surprised.
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In particular, we will neglect audiotex and fax-based publishing altogether since neither look like having a significant role in multimedia applications.
understand
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I neither understand nor share that view.
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Dougal almost felt he was tampering with something he could neither understand nor control.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I've never been to Australia." "No, neither have I."
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The Cowboys won't be playing in the Superbowl this year, and neither will the Falcons.
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Tom didn't believe a word she said, and neither did the police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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They may not have criticized the state, but neither did they praise it.
III. conjunction
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If politics did not interest them, neither did they see it as affecting their lives.