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Where did the term 'nothing burger' actually originate?
By Alyssa Pereira
July 12, 2017
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"Nothing burger" -- originally often seen written as "nothingburger"
-- was likely first popularized in the early 1950s by a Hollywood
gossip columnist named Louella Parsons to describe a person or idea
that's essentially a whole lot of, well, nothing.
Since then it has been used by writers here and there. Notably,
Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown used the term in print in the
'60s and '70s.
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The expression's meaning has since expanded to describe a number of
topics. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, for example, used
the term in later 1984 to describe San Francisco's efforts to make the
city of Los Angeles seem like a "nothing burger" for tourists, and in
1997, the term appeared in Connecticut's Stamford Advocate relating to
an inefficient budget deal.
Today, the term has been revived to once again refer to politics, with
the term appearing in Google searches with greater frequency since
Jones' use of it.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Where-did-the-term-nothing-b...
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