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"There is nothing between me and Willow. Okay? Nothing. Bupkiss.
Goose egg. Snake eyes. Othing-nay."
I always thought of "bupkiss" as an Italian-by-way-of-New-Jersey sounding word, but it seems to be a Yiddish expression for "nothing," with variant spelling from the word for "beans."
See http://www.lizzie.net/html/yiddish.htm or http://members.rotfl.com/cookie4/yiddish.html
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