Meanings of diddlysquat in English

Explosion hazard.' But then here's 'Low air,' and 'five'... shit, 'four minutes.'

Our official diplomatic response was summed up as-problemtoo hard, tough shit.

Of course, she wanted to point out what a shit I was.

Yes, I feel sorry for the victims on whom the shit falls.

Despite the best precautions and the best intentions, sometimes shit just happens.

Each one was different, some small and squat, others tall and long.

I squat down on a cushion; I don't know what to say.

Her attention wandered to the squat Chinese god in the glass case.

Such was the highest type; the commoner was squat, dumpy, and heavy.

The girls were brought and made to squat in front of him.

He charges Doodles, who slips past him and goes into a chuckling, high-stepping diddley-bop.

This time last year, the name Macy Gray meant diddley-squat to the great record-buying public.

Apart from maybe keeping the rain out, diddley squat.

It's a diddley-eye date with destiny as the Dancing With The Stars semi-final doubles as St Patrick's Day-themed celebration of Irish music.

Do they call The Corrs, who have the requisite diddley-aye quotient, and who have already appeared on an episode of Beverly Hills 90210?

So I started looking into the Seraphim and couldn't find out diddly.

Fact two: There wasn't diddly I could do to the Big Hoods.

Billions handed to private business, and near-enough diddly-squat to anyone else.

People who know diddly about wizards don't like to give us their names.

The Russian's gear wouldn't do diddly to stop swords or claws.

He's got a virus, and that stuff doesn't do doodly-squat for viruses.

I had never before grasped that doodly-squat was less than horsepucky, but it's always nice to learn something new.

"Not doodly-squat," I said.

"Then, you've got doodly-squat," she said and looked away, back to where Captain Matthews was answering questions with his solemn, manly jaw jutting out.

Billions handed to private business, and near-enough diddly-squat to anyone else.

It's not going to make diddly-squat worth of difference to the safety of our community.

Actually, we've already signed it, but that means diddly-squat until Parliament signs off on that.

Not many people can say "diddly-squat" and still be taken seriously.

The breakthroughs get a lot of attention, but attention means diddly-squat in the bigger picture.

I am not ordering you to do diddly-shit, Dimitrova.

Larry: "Well... don't we have enough other things to worry about without hacking around with a bunch of diddly-shit bureaucracy?"

That seems like supreme diddlyshit now, but it was a very big deal then.'