Learn English – What’s wrong with the phrase “…didn’t even have any thought left”

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Example sentence:

"She didn't feel anything anymore. She didn't even have any thought
left.

I thought she second sentence was common. But when I searched for didn't even have any thought, I got 0 results.

What's wrong with that phrase? And what the correct wording?

Best Answer

If the text was a quote from a book, then perhaps one could argue that it's a stylistic turn of phrase, but didn't have any thought left is certainly not idiomatic in English.

If the implication is that she has no actual thought on the matter (either she didn't care any more, or she no longer had the strength to think about it), something along the lines of

She didn't feel anything anymore. Her mind was blank.

...might be more idiomatic.

One could also use a similarly worded idiom - to draw a blank - to imply that she was trying to think of something but couldn't.

She didn't feel anything anymore. She tried to think of something to say, but she drew a blank.

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