'It is neither here nor there' definitions:

Definition of 'It is neither here nor there'

From: GCIDE
  • Here \Here\ (h[=e]r), adv. [OE. her, AS. h[=e]r; akin to OS. h[=e]r, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. h[=e]r, Dan. her, Sw. h[aum]r; fr. root of E. he. See He.]
  • 1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there. [1913 Webster]
  • He is not here, for he is risen. --Matt. xxviii. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. In the present life or state. [1913 Webster]
  • Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither. [1913 Webster]
  • Here comes Virgil. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou led'st me here. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now. [1913 Webster]
  • The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. --Warren. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in drinking healths. "Here's [a health] to thee, Dick." --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
  • Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed manner; irregularly. "Footsteps here and there." --Longfellow.
  • It is neither, here nor there, it is neither in this place nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence, it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense. --Shak. Herea-bout

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