| 单词 | not to care a rye straw for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to care (also give) a rye straw for 2. A single dried straw or stem of rye. Also figurative: †(a) a weak, insignificant person (obsolete rare); (b) U.S. not to care (also give) a rye straw for: to care nothing for (now rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance nekardc1450 man of clouts, king of clouts1467 dandiprat1556 Tom Thumb1579 minim1590 pygmy?1592 titmouse1596 gnatling1614 rye straw1615 nazzard1619 whisk1629 whifling1640 snifty1660 whippersnapper1674 nick-ninny1699 little me1711 squita1825 lightweight1831 lay figure1835 whiffet1839 pinkeen1850 huckleberry1868 bush leaguer1906 knibloch1915 1615 T. Heywood Foure Prentises i. F j. Think'st thou this rye-strew can ore-rule my arme? 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 156 A firm pebble..having a smooth hole through it about the bigness of a Rye-straw. 1808 J. Smith in A. Loudon Select. Interesting Narr. Outrages Indians I. 135 They had also brought with them small cane or reed, about the size of a rye straw, which they made sharp at the end like a pen. 1828 Casket 16 Feb. 81/2 You called him rusty fusty fudge, and old codger, and said you did not care a rye straw more for him than you did for yourself. 1830 Deb. in Congr. 13 Jan. 522/1 The stock speculations of former times were to this but the amusements of boys blowing up bubbles with rye straws in tumblers of water. 1852 F. C. Woodworth Budget of Willow Lane Stories 166 I would not give a rye straw for a man of this sort. 1868 Canada Farmer 15 Apr. 115/3 The canes of each stand now number seventy to one hundred, thrown from a single centre, just as the twenty to thirty rye straws proceed from a single grain. 1900 G. M. Gallaher Vassar Stories (1970) 97 I felt awfully to have you know, for I wanted your good opinion, but I didn't care a rye straw for my own disgrace. 1977 R. E. F. Smith Peasant Farming in Muscovy i. iii. 54 Ropes were made of bast or from roots (as well as from cultivated hemp and from rye straws). 2002 A. C. Funderburg Sundae Best 107 For farmers, selling rye straws to soda fountains was a profitable sideline, since they planted rye to feed their chickens and cows, anyway. < as lemmas |
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