nothing to it

Example Sentences

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And in short 24 hours of researching and thinking about it, I concluded that there was nothing to it whatsoever.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2023

I decided that there was nothing to it at all.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

I think Emily has found the perfect celebration for herself, and I will add nothing to it other than my congratulations, and my insistence that this column be piped in icing on the cake.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

“There’s nothing to it – I was just doing my job,” she told The Washington Post in 2017.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2020

It was heavy work, and boring; there was nothing to it but swinging my pickax again and again, breaking off big chunks of salt that another prisoner shoveled into a donkey cart.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz