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**1.What is the meaning of でもない?  
2.How is it used?**

I saw it in this sentense **「生きたまま入れた魚ではないので、そんなに騒ぐ話でもないと思います」** , which I
think means something like 'Because the fish has not been put [into the ice]
alive as it was, I don't think there should be that much uproar'.

I do not quite see how the dictionary explanation of でもない fits in the above
context (unless I've misunderstood the meaning of the sentence):

  1. (exp) neither... nor... (with the implication that there are other "nor..." items) 
  2. denying explicitly one thing and also denying implicitly other things as well 
  3. not like (you); not (your) usual self
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What is the meaning, usage, etc. of でもない?
「～～でもない」, in that particular context, means " ** _not worth ~~_** ". Thus, the
second half of the sentence in question would mean:

> "I don't think it's something worth making such a fuss over"

Or, more literally, you could change the "something" to "a story" since the
word used in the original is 「話」.

What 「でもない」 means depends heavily on the context as Japanese is an extremely
contextual language. Here and in many other situations, it means "something is
rather trivial".

Moving on to how to use 「でもない」... Permit me to just give an example for each
of the definitions you have copied from the dictionary.

1) 1.(exp) neither... nor... (with the implication that there are other
"nor..." items)

For this usage, you must use 「でも」 at least twice as in:

> 「これはラーメン **でも** うどん **でもない** 。『ラードン』だ。」 (I invented a noodle dish.)

2) denying explicitly one thing and also denying implicitly other things as
well

> 「特{とく}に仕事{しごと}をする **でもなく** 、この１年を無駄{むだ}に過{す}ごしてしまった。」
>
> "Not only did I not work, I didn't really do anything else this past year."
> (Not a direct translation, but you know what I mean.)

3) not like (you); not (your) usual self

> 「そんなことをするなんて、お前 **でもない** よ。」("It isn't like you to do such a thing.")

I myself feel this usage is kind of old-fashioned. We would use 「～～らしくない」
nowadays. (Perhaps I'm too young is all.)
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