nothing of the kind

Meaning

1. Oxford80% of films

   used to emphasize that the situation is very different from what has been said

   I saw nothing of the kind.

In the movies · 13

• You will do nothing of the sort.Sense and Sensibility1995
• I'd heard nothing of the sort, Mr. Roderick.The Uninvited1944
• I said nothing of the sort.The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
• I'll do nothing of the kind.Murder Mystery2019
• ...Victorian parent or something. I'm nothing of the kind!Notes on a Scandal2006
• I saw nothing of the kind.Frosty the Snowman1969
• Nothing about some kind of elaborate breakout costume?Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021
• Look, it was nothing, and then it kind of became something.The Gift2015

Learn it in full scenes

• Sense and Sensibility1995
  • John Dashwood's Deathbed Promise
  • The Dashwoods Lose Norland
  • Edward Ferrars Visits Norland
• The Uninvited1944
  • Pamela Falls for the Old House
  • The Fitzgeralds Try to Buy Windward
  • The Fitzgeralds Buy a Haunted House
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
  • Lucy Leaves Her In-Laws' House
  • Lucy Insists on Gull Cottage
  • Lucy Rents the Haunted House

From the same entry

• in kind
• a kind of
• kind of
• of a kind
• one of a kind
• of the kind

More idioms

• under pressure
• close by
• out of your hands
• that's that
• every penny
• in black and white
• have to hand it to
• with your bare hands
• on the streets
• away from home
• out of business
• how would you like it