According to the traditional rule, nothing is invariably treated as a singular, even when followed by an exception phrase containing a plural noun: Nothing except your fears stands (not stand) in your way. Nothing but roses meets (not meet) the eye. (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition).
Like I said before nothing is the absence of anything. Not a thing. What could be simpler and more straightforward? Actually, it's pretty complicated. Nothing is no thing; not anything: The box contained nothing. I've heard nothing about it. No part, no portion: Nothing remains of the old house but the cellar hole. One of no consequence, significance, or interest: The new nonsmoking policy is nothing to me. Something that has no existence. Something that has no quantitative value; zero: a score of two to nothing. One that has no substance or importance; a nonentity: “A nothing is a dreadful thing to hold onto” (Edna O'Brien). Insignificant or worthless: “the utterly nothing role of a wealthy suitor” (Bosley Crowther). In no way or degree; not at all: She looks nothing like her sister.
Some idioms for nothing could be the next ones: Free of charge. To no avail: all that trouble for nothing. For no reason: fired him for nothing. In nothing flat: in very little time, very quickly.
Ask a teenager what he or she did during the day and they'll typically respond, "Nothing." That innocent "nothing" could mean anything from accidentally blowing up the chemistry lab, getting a perfect score on the SATs, or knocking over the neighborhood 7-Eleven.
And "nothing" means different things to different sexes. When the woman in your life seems angry or depressed and you ask what's bothering her and she responds, "Nothing," you can safely assume that she really means that it's everything…about you. And when she tells you that she wants "nothing" for her birthday or your anniversary, you can be sure that the "nothing" she wants had better be made out of gold and be encrusted with diamonds.
Men, on the other hand, are much easier to read. Do we look troubled? Don't worry about it. Nothing's really wrong. Chances are that we're hungry, horny, tired, or our team just lost a big game. We usually have absolutely nothing else on our minds. Nothing complicated about us.
And isn't it odd that where you have your "nothing" is important?
If you have nothing on your mind, that's a good thing. If you have nothing in mind…well, you're undecided and probably open to suggestions…and that's not bad. If, however, you have nothing upstairs, that's not so good at all, in fact, you probably don't understand a word I've written. And woe is the man who has nothing downstairs. His love life will soon be nothing. Folks who have nothing up their sleeves are honest. But if they have nothing in their pockets, they're broke. If you have nothing on your plate, you're not hungry; you're just not busy.
Not busy? More confusion. Doing nothing is quite restful, while having nothing to do is downright boring. Go figure.
When someone offers you something for nothing, beware. You'll find that nothing can be very expensive, indeed. And when you buy something on the installment plan, "nothing down" usually means a heck of a lot later.
Perhaps the most confusing thing about "nothing" is its use in normal conversation with the people who are closest to us.
For me nothing, it's like this wave you see way out in the ocean, and you just watch it come in, You see that it's moving, that it's inevitable, but it hasn't hit the shore yet. What else you want me to writes if there is nothing to write, I can also say that whenever I turn to the sky I don’t see anything, so that there is nothing, but I can say that nothing is nothing. Like when you eat a hamburger and you finish it you remainded with nothing. There is nothing more boring then doing nothing. Nothing its like the number of zero if I wouldn’t be writing this essay this papper would contein. The more and more I think in what to write nothing comes to mind so basically everything I like in this paper will probably amount to nothing, everything I’m written from this point and on is basically nothing because I am out of words and don’t have nothing more to say. Well I can say that if I didn’t have any clothes, house, or any other personal belongings the I wouldn’t have nothing. What else can I say I don’t know nothing else.