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hidings to nothing

hidings to nothing is the plural of hiding to nothing.

Meaning of hiding to nothing

Noun

hiding to nothing (plural hidings to nothing)

  1. (UK, idiomatic, informal) A situation in which victory has little or no value, but defeat has a huge cost.
    • It would have been madness to encourage them to back the mare : in fact I was on a hiding to nothing whatever happened.1915, James Forman Sloan, A. Dick Luckman, Tod Sloan, page 245

Questions about hidings to nothing

What is hidings to nothing the plural of?
Hidings to nothing is the plural of hiding to nothing.

Words near hidings to nothing in the dictionary

  1. hiding-places
  2. hidingly
  3. hidingplace
  4. hidingplaces
  5. hidings
  6. hidings to nothing
  7. Hidișelu de Sus
  8. Hidjaz
  9. hidle
  10. hidles
  11. hidness

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