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Newguest Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

squat

Hi

I cannot find the meaning of this phrase: "do squat"-"You must do the work yourself, just hearing about it won't do squat."

I suppose it means: "won't help you," "will be useless" etc.

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"do squat" = nothing Right?
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Newguest"do squat" = nothing Right?
NO

"do squat" = do nothing
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"won't do squat"

Is it a good grammatical construction then?

"Will not do ANYTHING" instead of NOTHING i.e., "will not do nothing"????

thanks
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squat = nothing/anything.

See my signature line. I don't know anythingn about.

He's useless - he doesn't do squat = he doesn't do anything = he does nothing

It's QUITE informal.
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Now it's clear. Thanks.
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