brass farthing
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Noun
brass farthing (plural brass farthings)
- (idiomatic) Something worthless or of small value.
- 1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter 27, in The Mirror of the Sea:
- The man, as a matter of fact, under no circumstances, ever cared a brass farthing for what I or anybody else in his ship thought.
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Synonyms
- plug nickel / plugged nickel
Related terms
- not worth a brass farthing