Food & eating

nothing too fancy

simple and not expensive

If you want nothing too fancy, you want something ordinary, simple, or reasonably priced.

B1 very common mostly spoken

expression

Hear it in real life

What kind of hotel should I book?

Nothing too fancy, just somewhere clean and central.

Play the conversation

We're going out for dinner, but nothing too fancy—maybe a little place near the station.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: We want nothing too fancily for dinner.

Say: We want nothing too fancy for dinner.

“Fancy” is an adjective here, so do not change it to the adverb “fancily.”

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

nothing too fancy; be nothing too fancy

Your turn: say it out loud

We're going out for dinner, but nothing too fancy—maybe a little place near the station.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

nothing too fancy

simple and not expensive

“We're going out for dinner, but nothing too fancy—maybe a little place near the station.”

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