Strange descriptive, eh?
Have you ever been asked: where’s the toilet paper?
Only to be answered: neither nor there.
Well it has to be somewhere, right? It’s definitely not “here” as you wouldn’t be asking where it was if it was. Yet how do know that it’s not “there” wherever you’re not. And “there” carries the implication of being basically “anywhere.” So should people be saying “neither here nor anywhere”? Now that implication is it’s been eliminated altogether as a household product, or perhaps there’s a shortage. But sometimes it’s not just objects caught in this tangled weave.
EXAMPLE:
“Have you seed the Jimenez Family lately?
“No, it’s weird. They’re neither here nor there.
Now this is an entire family that just poofed its way into oblivion.
“I thought I saw a dark car parked in front of their house one afternoon, but that’s it.”
“So they were here, you’re saying?”
“Not exactly. I’m saying there was a dark car parked in front of their house one afternoon, but that’s it.”
“Of fer the love of Christ. So if they’re not here and the dark car isn’t here as well, wouldn’t that lead you to assume they’re in it.”
“Well, that’s not really here nor there”
“What’s that?’
“Your reasoning.”
“How the heck would I know where they are or if they even got inside the car at all?”
And we wonder why election zones can be changed? Well they’re neither here nor there.