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no worries

phraseB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

No worries is a relaxed way of saying that something is fine. Thanks. No worries.

It is Australian in origin and spread through the English-speaking world in a generation. No worries answers thanks and an apology equally well, which is why it is so useful.

David Neubert from Berkshire County and New York City, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of no worries

  1. 1phraseno worriesA relaxed way of saying that something is fine.B1

    “He said no worries and moved the whole appointment.”

no worries is a phrase.

Where it comes from

From no plus worries; the phrase is Australian and became general English in the late twentieth century.

Built from

  • worry · English — concern, cause for anxiety

From no + plural of worry (“concern, cause for anxiety”), but used flexibly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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