For an extremely good reason.
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Not for nothing is it called the World Wide Wait. Not for nothing has a Dilbert cartoon appeared noting that all the time saved through automation and computers in the last fifty years has been entirely outweighed by people sitting in front of pc's waiting for web pages to load.
Submitted on July 07, 2010
Additional definitions for 'not for nothing':
| not for nothing | Used to soften the impact of what is said next, implying that it is important. |
| not for nothing | Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see not, for, nothing. |
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no por nada
boşuna değil
一無是處
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