diddly-squat

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  • Therefore, forget all those pseudo-rankings - they mean diddly-squat, all of them. —  BC Bloggers
  • His plan might mean diddly-squat for the macroeconomy. —  Stumbling and Mumbling
  • As I expected it would all amount to diddly-squat, the lunatics in Pyongyang, did their thing, everyone heaved and hoed like a bunch of big girls, had a meeting, wasted a lot of money and ultimately, nothing has happened and nothing will happen to them. —  CRUSADER RABBIT
  • Didn't know diddly-squat about her political history or where she stands on the issues. —  Welcome to my Brain
  • Those tens of millions of copies of Solaris, Java and other pieces of Sun software are bringing in diddly-squat revenues set against Sun's overall business and what it should be capable of doing. —  Channel Register
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  1. Alteration of diddlyshit (influenced by doodly-squat) : diddly (probably from diddle2) + shit, added as an intensive (from shit).
 

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