big whoop

idiom

US, informal

—used in an ironic way to say that something is not important or impressive

"Their team is going to the play-offs." "Big whoop."

It might look special but it's really no big whoop.

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Forty years ago, four men put on uniforms, came up with a catchy logo — a startled specter in a red circle with a slash going through it, no big whoop — strapped on some proton packs and saved New York City from an evil deity holed up in a penthouse. —