Not For Nothing

MC (Email Removed)'s wild thoughts were released on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:59:52 -0400 bearing the following fruit:
[nq:1]What is the meaning of the phrase "not for nothing"?[/nq]
"For something"
e.g
"Will you paint my fence"
"Yes, but not for nothing"
In other words, yes I will paint your fence, but I expect something in return, I won't do it for nothing in return.

J

[nq:2]What is the meaning of the phrase "not for nothing"?[/nq]
[nq:1]"For something" e.g "Will you paint my fence" "Yes, but not for nothing" In other words, yes I will paint your fence, but I expect something in return, I won't do it for nothing in return.[/nq]
Not the usage I meant - I should have given you a context...

"Not for nothing, but... "

I really don't care wh

[nq:2]What is the meaning of the phrase "not for nothing"?[/nq]
[nq:1]"For something" e.g "Will you paint my fence" "Yes, but not for nothing" In other words, yes I will paint your fence, but I expect something in return, I won't do it for nothing in return.[/nq]
I can also mean 'for a good reason'. It is not for nothing that we avoid rabid dogs.

[nq:1]What is the meaning of the phrase "not for nothing"?[/nq]
I always understood it as: "What I'm about to say doesn't necessarily follow from our discussion so far, but I'm still going to say it."

Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
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[nq:1]Not the usage I meant - I should have given you a context... "Not for nothing, but... "[/nq]
That's not really a context, it's a sole sentence.

Linz
Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford
My accent may vary

[nq:1]That's not really a context, it's a sole sentence.[/nq]
"Post in a news group and sooner or later someone will either correct you, denounce the premise of the post, point out some real or imagined error you have made, react angrily to some inference that was never implied, gratuitously provide irrelevant information,* insist that you gratuitously provide irrelevant information, castigate

[nq:2]That's not really a context, it's a sole sentence.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Post in a news group and sooner or later someone will either correct you, denounce the premise of the post, ... demand that you justify yourself by meeting some previously undisclosed standard of erudition or education, or all of the above."[/nq]
Is that supposed to be relevant, or a ***-poor attempt to insult?

L

[nq:2]"Post in a news group and sooner or later someone ... standard of erudition or education, or all of the above."[/nq]
[nq:1]Is that supposed to be relevant, or a ***-poor attempt to insult?[/nq]
A ***-poor attempt to insult, I imagine.
I was really only interested in the answer to the original question. It seemed a little early in the game to drift the thread into correcting me.

[nq:2]That's not really a context, it's a sole sentence.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Post in a news group and sooner or later someone will either correct you, denounce the premise of the post, ... Penna. Dept. Ag. "UNDER PENALTY OF LAW THIS TAG SHALL NOT BE REMOVED EXCEPT BY THE CONSUMER" *The Schultz Amendment.[/nq]
The request for more context is a request for relevant information.

It is imposs

[nq:2]"Not for nothing, but... "[/nq]
[nq:1]That's not really a context, it's a sole sentence.[/nq]
Okay, tetchy me.
Is this better?
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=not%20for%20nothing

Phrase meaning "what I'm about to say is important." Th