Meaning of BETTER THAN NOTHING - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English when we say something is "better
than nothing" it means that it's better to
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get something that you didn't quite want instead
of getting nothing at all or getting zero.
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So maybe your dad is going to buy you a car
and you think he's going to buy you a brand
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new sports car and instead he buys you kind
of an old, rusty, four door car.
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In that situation you could think to yourself,
"Well, it's better than nothing!"
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But you wouldn't want to say to your dad that's
better than nothing 'cause that might make
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you seem ungrateful.
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So you might think it, you might think, "Well,
this old used car is better than nothing.
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It's better than no car."
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But you shouldn't say it out loud.
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