| 单词 | not to be worth a button |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to be worth a button b. As the type of something of little or no value or importance, chiefly in negative constructions, as not to be worth a button, not to care a button, not to give a button, etc. Cf. button top n. at Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth ivy-leafc1000 needle?c1225 sloec1250 peasea1275 strawc1290 bean1297 nutc1300 buttonc1330 leekc1330 trifle1375 cress1377 goose-wing1377 sop1377 niflec1395 vetcha1400 a pin's head (also point)c1450 trump1513 plack1530 toy1530 blue point1532 grey groat1546 cherry-stone1607 jiggalorum1613 candle-enda1625 peppercorn1638 sponge1671 sneeshing1686 snottera1689 catchpenny1705 potato1757 snuff1809 pinhead1828 traneen1837 a hill of beans1863 gubbins1918 c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1448 He smot him in þe side; It no vailed o botoun. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 86 Hi ne prayseþ þe wordle bote ane botoun. c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 199 Forto haue of me as miche helpe as þe value of a botoun. c1475 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Caius) l. 2216 (MED) His shelde auailled him not a botoun. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Gal. vi. f. xxiv Whether a man come, circumcised..or not circumcised.., it forceth not... A button therfore for all worldely differences. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. v. sig. Kv/2 They set not a button by his commaundement. 1648 N. Ward Mercurius Anti-mechanicus 47 Alas, 'tis not worth a Button. 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal iii. 26 I would not give a button for my Play. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 17 June 2/1 Not..a Button the worse for it. 1799 J. T. Allingham Fortune's Frolic ii. iv. 29 Why as to his consent, I don't value it a button. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 60 He did not care a button for cock-fighting. 1953 J. Woodford Writer's Cramp iii. 45 Nothing you can get paid for..is easy to do unless you get paid buttons for it. 2012 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. 50 The film looks like a million dollars..but the script isn't worth a button. < as lemmas |
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