"I look nothing of the sort," said Bree. But then suddenly he rolled round on his side, raised his head and looked hard at Shasta, blowing a little.
Among the Romantics and the Victorians, suffering and dying from tuberculosis might be considered a badge of refinement; cancer death was nothing of the sort.
Fear that voters might reach the same conclusion is, I'd argue, the main reason the right has always seen Keynesian economics as a leftist doctrine, when it's actually nothing of the sort.
The shortcut was nothing of the sort: It set the Donner Party back nearly three weeks and cost them much-needed supplies.
Of course, we could be getting ahead of ourselves here with that last idea - nothing of the sort has been announced.
Other experts note, however, that what outsiders see as carefully calculated policy changes may in fact be nothing of the sort.
No, no, I'll allow nothing of the sort!
Don't believe their babbling, nothing of the sort.