conjunction
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be neither here nor there
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It's true we're not friends but that's neither here nor there. We're still able to work together.
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What Cheng's intentions were is neither here nor there. What matters is what he did.
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What I think about your husband is 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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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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The fact that she hadn't seen her prospective husband since she was ten was neither here nor there.
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The fact that you fantasise about a woman rather than a man is neither here nor there in these circumstances.
be neither one thing nor the other
can't make head or/nor tail of sth
neither ... nor ...
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I neither can, nor wish to, exclude the media from these proceedings.
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I am neither a bailiff nor a tax-collector.
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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.
not for love or/nor money
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I can't get a hold of that book for love nor money.
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And you still can't get a good daily woman now to clean, not for love or money.
not see hide nor hair of sb
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I haven't seen hide nor hair of him in months.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I am not, nor have I ever been, a Communist.
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Worrall was not at the meeting, nor was he at work yesterday.