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there's no "there" there

there's no "there" there is the alternative form of there is no there there.

Meaning of there is no there there

Phrase

there is no there there

  1. (idiomatic) The indicated thing, person, or other matter has no distinctive identity, or no significant characteristics, or no functional center point; nothing significant exists in that place; nothing significant is occurring in that situation.
    • She took us to see her granddaughter who was teaching in the Dominican convent in San Raphael, we went across the bay on a ferry, that had not changed but Goat Island might just as well not have been there, anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from...1937, Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, Vintage Books, published 1973, page 289

Questions about there's no "there" there

What is there's no "there" there the alternative form of?
There's no "there" there is the alternative form of there is no there there.

Words near there's no "there" there in the dictionary

  1. there's more than one way to feed a cat
  2. there's more than one way to fuck a cat
  3. there's more than one way to peel an orange
  4. there's more than one way to skin a cat
  5. there's more where that came from
  6. there's no "there" there
  7. there's no accounting for taste
  8. there's no business like show business
  9. there's no fool like an old fool
  10. there's no I in team
  11. there's no place like home

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