Fanny Adams
WordNet
noun
(1) Nautical term for tinned meat
(2) Little or nothing at all
"I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"
"I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From Fanny Adams (1859-1867), a young girl brutally murdered and dismembered. Tins of mutton introduced in the British navy after her death were not liked by the sailors and were taken to be her butchered remains. Fanny Adams then came to mean any worthless thing, and thence nothing at all.
Noun
Fanny Adams
- Nothing (sanitized version of fuck all).