• НИЧЕГО НЕ ЗНАЧИТЬ{{}}
[VP; subj: abstr, human, or collect; fixed WO]
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⇒ to have no significance, be unimportant:
- X ничего не значит{{}}≈ thing X doesn't mean anything (a thing);
- thing X doesn't matter;
- thing X is inconsequential;
- person X doesn't have any clout (say (in anything), pull etc);
- person X is a nonentity (in his family <at work etc>).
♦ [Кабанова:] Ведь ты... с ней [с женой] в законе живешь. Али [substand = или], по-вашему, закон ничего не значит? (Островский 6). [К..] After all...you're living with her [your wife] in lawful marriage. Or, to your way of thinking, doesn't lawful marriage mean anything? (6a).
♦ [Хороших:] Думаешь, заступился он за тебя, значит, что ж?.. Да ничего не значит!.. Не замечал он тебя и не замечает (Вампилов 2). [Kh :] You think because he defended you it means something, is that it?...But it doesn't mean a thing!...He never noticed you before and he doesn't now (2b).
Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь. — М.: ACT-ПРЕСС КНИГА. С.И. Лубенская. 2004.