шаром покати

<хоть> шаром покати

разг.

as bare as the palm of one's hand; perfectly empty; as empty as a drum; quite clean; bare as a bone; the place is full of sweet nothing; there is not a crumb of anything here

- Ты не поверишь, - говорил он брату, - какое для меня наслажденье эта хохлацкая лень. Ни одной мысли в голове, хоть шаром покати. (Л. Толстой, Анна Каренина) — 'You wouldn't believe,' he would say to his brother, 'what a pleasure this rural laziness is to me. Not an idea in one's brain, as empty as a drum!'

- Мать через порог навстречу ног не перенесёт, распухли они у неё брёвнами от голодухи. В хате шаром покати. Мышей и тех унесло! (П. Проскурин, Судьба) — 'I saw mother, who could not even step over the threshold towards me, she was so starved that her legs were swollen and looked like two logs. There was nothing, not a crumb of anything in the house. Not even mice!'

- Так вот, если они договорились, пусть они вам и выдают... А то они шибко скорые: Морозов, выдай, Морозов, отпусти... А у Морозова на складе - шаром покати. (В. Шукшин, Шире шаг, маэстро!) — 'Well, if they arranged it, let them give it to ye... It's all very well for everyone to say 'Give it to him, Morozov,' 'Hand it over, Morozov.' But Morozov's storeroom was full of sweet nothing...'