not a one
None at all
Not a one is an emphatic way of saying none or not one, stressing complete absence: I asked ten people and not a one could help.
The phrasing adds rhetorical force, suggesting the speaker expected or hoped for at least one.
Not a one of them showed up.
- zeroNumerical absence of quantity
- zilchInformal term for naught
- nilNothing whatsoever
- nonexistentNot present anywhere
- voidWithout legal effect
insistence · nix · hyperbole · dramatization · zip · cipher · null · emptiness · no such thing · missing · nobody · lacking · nada · barren · emphasis · bupkis · underscoring · diddly
universality
not a oneevery last one
the whole lot · without exception · one and all · every one · everyone