Fanny Adams

fanny adams

n

1. (usually preceded by sweet) absolutely nothing at all. Often shortened to: f.a., FA or SFA

2. chiefly nautical (formerly) tinned meat, esp mutton

[C19: for sense 1: a euphemism for fuck all for sense 2: from the name of a young murder victim whose body was cut up into small pieces. ]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Fanny Adams - little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"; "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery" bugger all, fuck all, sweet Fanny Adams dirty word, obscenity, smut, filth - an offensive or indecent word or phrase Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, aught, cypher, cipher - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
	2.	Fanny Adams - nautical term for tinned meat   canned meat, tinned meat - meat preserved in a can or tin Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom