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Definition: It is neither here nor there
Here
\Here\ (h[=e]r), adv. [OE. her, AS. h[=e]r; akin to OS.
h[=e]r, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. h[=e]r,
Dan. her, Sw. h["a]r; fr. root of E. he. See
He.]
1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; --
opposed to
there.
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He is not here, for he is risen. --Matt.
xxviii. 6.
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2. In the present life or state.
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Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.
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3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See
Thither.
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Here comes Virgil. --B. Jonson.
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Thou led'st me here. --Byron.
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4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now.
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The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise.
--Warren.
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Note: Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a
verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something
or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in
drinking healths. ``Here's [a health] to thee, Dick.''
--Cowley.
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Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed
manner; irregularly.
“Footsteps here and there.”
--Longfellow.
It is neither, here nor there, it is neither in this place
nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence,
it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense. --Shak.