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nothing to write home about
ordinary and unimpressive
If something is nothing to write home about, it is acceptable but not especially interesting, exciting or impressive.
Hear it in real life
How was the new restaurant?
It was okay, but nothing to write home about.
The concert was enjoyable, but the opening act was nothing to write home about.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: The meal was nothing to write to home about.
Say: The meal was nothing to write home about.
The fixed phrase does not use “to” before “home.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
be nothing to write home about
Your turn: say it out loud
The concert was enjoyable, but the opening act was nothing to write home about.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
nothing to write home about
ordinary and unimpressive
“The concert was enjoyable, but the opening act was nothing to write home about.”
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