Not a sausage
Posted by Bruce Kahl on May 22, 2004
In Reply to: Not a sausage posted by Marian on May 22, 2004
: Does anyone know anything about the origin of this phrase (meaning "nothing/zero/nil")?
Derived from the Cockney rhyming slang sausage and mash, meaning cash, thus originally 'not having a sausage' indicated having no money.