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not a sausage
- absolutely nothing, none of something.
- He said he would get in touch, but it's been over a week and not a sausage.
- John: Do you know how I get to the town center from here?
- Jill: Not a sausage I'm afraid, I'm just visiting.
- I've just looked through our accounts, and it's not good. We've got nothing, not a sausage.
- This is normally used to refer to no amount of something specific that is implied. In the examples above, the "sausage"s are "communication", "ideas", and "money".
