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sweet Fanny Adams
noun
little or nothing at all
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I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all

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I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery

• Syn: ↑bugger all, ↑fuck all, ↑Fanny Adams
• Usage Domain: ↑obscenity, ↑smut, ↑vulgarism, ↑filth, ↑dirty word
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
• Hypernyms:
↑nothing, ↑nil, ↑nix, ↑nada, ↑null, ↑aught, ↑cipher, ↑cypher, ↑goose egg, ↑naught, ↑zero, ↑zilch, ↑zip, ↑zippo

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sweet Fanny Adams or sweet FA (slang)
Nothing at all
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Main Entry: ↑Fanny Adams
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sweet Fanny Adams see under ↑Fanny Adams
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Main Entry: ↑sweet

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sweet FA/Fanny Adams/very informal phrase
nothing at all
Thesaurus: nothing, none and no onesynonym everything and including everythingsynonym
Main entry: sweet

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sweet FˈA f8 | sweet Fanny ˈAdams f8 idiom
(BrE, informal) nothing at all. People say ‘sweet FA ’ to avoid saying ‘fuck all ’.
Main entry: ↑sweetidiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.