| 单词 | not worth a damn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot worth a damn 2. Used vaguely (in unconventional speech) in phrases not worth a damn, not to care a damn, not to give a damn. (Cf. curse n. 2 ¶.) ΚΠ 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 198 Not that I care three dams what figure I may cut. 1817 Ld. Byron Diary in Wks. (1846) 423/1 A wrong..system, not worth a damn. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 15 Aug. (1941) 89 Boring some one who did not care a damn about the matter, so to speak. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Life & Lett. (1883) II. 257 How they settle the matter I care not, as the Duke [of Wellington] says, one twopenny damn. 1895 J. L. Williams Princeton Stories 165 I don't give a damn for the girl. 1929 Eugenics Rev. July 86/2 See the happy moron, He doesn't give a damn. I wish I were a moron. My God! Perhaps I am! 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xviii. 263 I don't give a single, solitary damn. 1959 J. Cary Captive & Free i. 13 It was obvious, as one angry young woman remarked, that he didn't give a damn—and so they were enraged. not worth a damn With not worth a damn (cf. quots. 1910, 1942) cf. not worth a tinker's damn and similar phrases at tinker n.1 Phrases 2.extracted from worthadj.< as lemmas |
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