not anything to write home about



not anything to write home about

To be not especially remarkable or noteworthy; to be rather dull, mediocre, uninteresting, or unimportant. A variant of the more common phrase "nothing to write home about." A: "Have you eaten in that new sushi restaurant yet?" B: "Yeah, I went there last week. It was OK, but it isn't anything to write home about." His performance hasn't been anything to write home about so far. To be honest, we were expecting much more from him when we recruited him out of Dartmouth.
See also: anything, home, not, write

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Baldovino-Italian
Christophorus-Late Roman
Yaniv-Hebrew
Lefteris-Greek
Ige-Western African, Yoruba
Baadur-Georgian