there is no there there

短语

别名

there's no there there there's no "there" there there is no "there" there

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    The indicated thing, person, or other matter has no distinctive identity, or no significant characteristics, or no functional center point; nothing significant exists in that place; nothing significant is occurring in that situation.

    习语

词源

From a remark by Gertrude Stein in Everybody's Autobiography (1937), concerning the fact that her childhood home in Oakland, California, no longer existed.

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