bupkis

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Zero, zilch, as we say in the Catholic Church, bupkis (ph), nada.

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  • Zero, zilch, as we say in the Catholic Church, bupkis (ph), nada. —  CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2009
  • As a nation what we got for all this added debt spending can be neatly summed up in a single word-bupkis, the literal definition of which won't be given here because this is a family site, but a term that can more politely be rendered as zilch, nada, not a damn thing worth having. —  The Moderate Voice
  • Coming up on AMERICAN MORNING, if you hear somebody say that Sasha Cohen's slip cost her her gold medal, I say bupkis (ph). —  CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2006
  • If he had bupkis, you didn't need to know. —  Little Girl Blue
  • We got bupkis (ph) out of that deal. —  CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2006
 

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