soft scale
noun
Any of various scale insects constituting the family Coccidae, many of which are pests; especially (more fully brown soft scale) Coccus hesperidum, which attacks a wide variety of greenhouse plants and fruit trees.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in John Comstock (1849–1931).
- not have a pot to piss in
- not have a prayer
- not have a shot in one's locker
- not have a —— bone in one's body
- not have the faintest
- not have the foggiest (idea or notion)
- not have two pennies (or farthings etc.) to rub together
- nothing
- nothingarian
- nothingarianism
- nothing but
- nothing-but-ism
- nothing-buttery
- nothing daunted
- nothing doing
- nothing if not
- nothingism
- nothingist
- nothingless
- nothing less than
- nothingly
- nothing much
- nothingness
- nothing of the kind
- nothing of the sort