nary a

[nary a] {informal} Not a single; not one; never a.

* /One afternoon a large dark cloud came in the sky. John thought it would rain so he took his raincoat — but nary a drop fell./

* /John went fishing but he caught nary a one./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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