there is no there there

Meaning: (idiomatic)The indicated thing, person, or other matter has nodistinctiveidentity, or nosignificantcharacteristics, or no functional center point; nothing significantexistsin thatplace; nothing significant isoccurringin that situation.1937,Gertrude Stein,Everybody's Autobiography, Vintage Books, published1973,page289:She took us to see her granddaughter who was teaching in the Dominican convent in San Raphael, we went across the bay on a ferry, that had not changed but Goat Island might just as well not have been there, anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there,there is no there there.1992May 6,Anna Quindlen, “Public & Private: No There There”, inNew York Times‎[1], retrieved1 March 2017:There is a character issue for Mr. Bush in this campaign. The clothes have no emperor.There is no there there.1996October 12,Sir Terence Conran, “Travel in Style”, inIndependent (UK)‎[2], retrieved1 March 2017:This desire to express national difference comes at a time when the world is shrinking rapidly and travellers arrive halfway across the globe to find thatthere is no "there" there.2001June 24,Julian Dibbell, “The Race to Build Intelligent Machines”, inTime‎[3], archived fromthe originalon3 November 2015:Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world. . . . Cog's "mind," similarly, is just a collection of loosely coordinated digital reflexes scattered among its eight processors, with no one place to point to as the seat of intelligence. "There's no there there," notes Brooks with a touch of pride.2003September 26, M. L. Lyke, “Mill Creek works to stay 'nice'”, inSeattle Post-Intelligencer‎[4], retrieved1 March 2017:Mill Creek . . . still lacks a geographic heart. . . .There's no "there" there, no center to the city—unless you count the private Mill Creek Country Club or the grocery-store shopping centers.2016January 9, Scot Lehigh, “Don’t presume Trump in New Hampshire”, inBoston Globe‎[5], retrieved1 March 2017:With Trump,there’s no there there. That is, no substance—not if substance is taken to mean a coherent set of policy proposals.

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EN: coauthored you want them to give me a person I'm not cannon fodder against them is the company's executives believe they are opposed to the program is problematic soul this thing is not to say that there is no there there would be no
ES: ¿Entonces los estás usando como carne de cañón para mí? No fui el único que se opuso a ellos, todo el equipo de alta dirección pensó que sus planes eran problemáticos. Podemos decidir si un plan tiene alma o no.
EN: To borrow a phrase from Gertrude Stein, "there is no there there."
HI: गर्ट्रूड स्टीन से एक वाक्यांश उधार लेने के लिए, "वहां कोई नहीं है"।
EN: But the truth is already out there and there is no there there.
HI: सच्चाई अभी भी कहीं नहीं है, वहां नहीं है ...।
EN: A closer look at what this attachment shows that there is no there there.
TE: మేము చెప్పేది జోక్ కాదనడానికి ఈ ఆఫర్ గురించి చూడండి.
EN: I have tried but there is no there there.
TE: దొరకదా అని ప్రయత్నిస్తాను,- కానీ అక్కడేమీ ఉండదు.
EN: The problem is there is no there there.
TE: అక్కడుంటాయి యిక్కడ లేవు అన్న ప్రశ్నే లేదు.
EN: In the end, there is no there there.
TE: మరియు ముగింపు లో, అక్కడ వుండదు
EN: Grammar: Knowing there is no there there, that it's not their there, and that they're not there.
TE: కానీ ఒక అద్భుతమైన ఊహించుకోండిః మీరు అక్కడ వెళ్ళి లేదు, మరియు వారు ఇక్కడ ఉన్నారు.
EN: The point is there is no there there.
TE: అక్కడుంటాయి యిక్కడ లేవు అన్న ప్రశ్నే లేదు.

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