אֵין דָּבָר

ביטוי (אנגלית)

It does not matter / Never mind / Don't mention it

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Nothing happened. It doesn't matter. An expression used to offer comfort or to downplay the importance of something bad that happened (originally: without anything).

("And the Israelites said to him: We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then I will pay for it; only, there is nothing, I will go through on foot" – Numbers 20:19 (the Israelites to the king of Edom); also: "And I laughed at his fear, I said to him: Do not fear, for it is nothing" – Abraham Mapu / Ayit Tzavua, 59; also: "And I say, it is nothing, sir, neither dog nor wound" – S.Y. Agnon / In the Prime of Her Life; also: "And the captain said: It is nothing, it is nothing / Tomorrow a ship will carry you to the sea again" – Aharon Shabtai / The Inn Poem)