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НИЧУТЬ (НИЧЕГО obs) HE БЫВАЛО coll (sent these forms only fixed WO

(used to emphasize that sth. turned out differently than expected, presumed, described etc) absolutely not, not at all (what has been suggested, claimed etc): nothing of the sort (kind) (happens)

far from it that isn't (wasn't) the case (at all).

«Теша насыпала еще (галушек) думает, гость наелся и будет убирать меньше. Ничего не бывало. Еще лучше стал уплетать!» (Гоголь 5). uMy mother-in-law put out some more (dumplings)

she thought the visitor had had enough and would take less. Nothing of the sort: he began gulping them down faster than ever..." (5a).

«Все думаешь: с завтрашнего дня начнешь новую жизнь, с завтрашнего дня сядешь на диету - ничуть не бывало: к вечеру того же дня так объешься, что... язык не ворочается...» (Гоголь 3). "You keep thinking that from tomorrow you'll start a new life, that from tomorrow you will go on a diet, but nothing of the sort happens: on the evening of that very day you gorge yourself so much that.. .you can hardly utter a word" (3a).

Я часто себя спрашиваю, зачем я так упорно добиваюсь любви молоденькой девочки, которую обольстить я не хочу и на которой никогда не женюсь?.. Если б она мне казалась непобедимой красавицей, то может быть, я бы завлекся трудностию предприятия. Но ничуть не бывало! (Лермонтов 3). I often ask myself why it is that I so persistently seek to win the love of a young girl whom I do not wish to seduce and whom I shall never marry....Were she an unconquerable beauty, the difficulty of the undertaking might serve as an inducement... .But far from it! (1 b). I often wonder why I'm trying so hard to win the love of a girl I have no desire to seduce and whom I'd never marry... .If she were some unattainable beauty I might have been attracted by the difficulty of the undertaking. But that isn't the case... (lc).