sweet F.A./Fanny Adams

sweet F.A./Fanny Adams
n
British
a.
nothing at all, fuck-all
b.
a pitifully small amount. In 19th-century naval slang 'Fanny Adams' was tinned or cooked meat, a sardonic reference to a girl of the same name who was murdered and dismembered in 1867.
The name was later matched with the initials of fuck-all and used euphemistically in its place.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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  • sweet Fanny Adams — informal, very informal nothing. Why s Mark dispensing advice? He knows sweet Fanny Adams about computers! And what did we get for all our hard work? Sweet FA! …   New idioms dictionary

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