No such thing meaning in English

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Definition

There's no such thing (as ghosts)!: (Ghosts, phantoms) don't exist! idiom

Examples

"Brian : There's no such thing as "free"."
"Luna : Oh that's difficult, there's no such thing as the "average" Delavigne employee."

Exercise 1

"there's no such thing as the average Delavigne employee"

This means that:

each Delavigne employee is treated fairly.

each Delavigne employee is unique.

all Delavigne employees are talented.

all Delavigne employees are equally valued.

I don't know

"there's no such thing as the average Delavigne employee"

This means that:

each Delavigne employee is treated fairly.

This is not the best choice here. To treat someone "fairly" is to treat them "in a just manner", and this is unrelated to the idiom "no such thing".

each Delavigne employee is unique.

"There's NO SUCH THING as SOMETHING" = "SOMETHING does not exist". Example: There's NO SUCH THING as Father Christmas. In her statement "there's NO SUCH THING as the average Delavigne employee", Luna means that the "average" or "typical" employee does not exist because each employee is different.

all Delavigne employees are talented.

This is not the best choice here. If Luna wanted to suggest that all Delavigne employees were talented, she would probably say, "there's no such thing as an untalented Delavigne employee (there are only talented Delavigne employees)".

all Delavigne employees are equally valued.

This is not the best choice here.

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