Green’s Dictionary of Slang

s.f.a. n.

also essefay
[abbr. sweet fuck all]

absolutely nothing at all.

[UK]G. Kersh Nine Lives Bill Nelson 63: You get away with S.F.A. [...] So mind your eye.
[UK]P. Larkin letter 26 Feb. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 136: It seems to me I am wasting a lot of energy doing s.f.a. at present.
[Aus]J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 35: ‘Cobber’s offered to train it for a whole year for essefay’.
[Aus]J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 155: Caligula Perkins (who didn’t get called that for essefay) seems to light up.