Nothingburger

Learning English Conversations

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Education, Language Learning

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Describing something insignificant

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak. I'm Faye Faye
0:12.0	and I'm Rob. You're looking a bit angry Rob. Are you okay?
0:16.3	Not really I was feeling hungry earlier so I thought I would treat myself to one of those huge luxury hamburgers from the cafe.
0:25.2	Oh yes, the double-decker ones with onions and girkins in a sesame seed bun.
0:31.9	Yum. So why are you angry?
0:35.0	Well, when I got it out of the box, there was no burger, just the bun.
0:41.0	Oh dear, no burger. You could call it a nothing burger.
0:45.0	Ha ha yes I suppose you could.
0:48.0	Actually the word nothing burger can also be used to describe other things too. If something seems good or
0:56.6	important but turns out not to be we can call it a nothing burger Well, my burger certainly wasn't what I expected.
1:06.0	Can we hear some more examples of this word please?
1:09.0	Sure.
1:10.0	Feast on these.
1:12.0	I will. Feast on these. I was worried when our boss called an emergency meeting, but it turned out to be a nothing burger.
1:20.0	The weather reporter warned we were in for a storm and should stay indoors, but it was a nothing burger.
1:28.0	All the hype about the new fashion store was a nothing burger. It was just like the old one.
1:34.0	You're listening to the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're looking at the
1:41.6	word nothing burger. It's used to describe something that was
1:45.8	expected to be important but turns out to be insignificant. It's used figuratively and not really to describe Rob's Numburger.
1:56.5	What's that? You're saying my non-Burger isn't a nothing burger?
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