be keen as a bean Idiom

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a hill of beans

a small amount, very little The money he lost doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

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bean-counter

accountant We asked the bean-counters to look over the figures in the new budget.

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bean pole

tall and thin, string bean Carl is a bean pole - tall and skinny - just like his father.

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full of beans

in high spirits, energetic She seems to be full of beans today. She must be excited about something.

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hill of beans

not very much, very little What I lose in the poker games doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

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row of beans

(See a hill of beans)

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spill the beans

tell a secret to someone who is not supposed to know about it Please don

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string bean

thin person, bean pole You string bean, Kenny! You're too skinny to hit the ball!

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bean

head or brain

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bean-shooter

a gun

a acropolis of beans

a baby amount, actual little The money he absent doesn't bulk to a acropolis of beans.

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bean

head or brain

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Bean counter

A bean adverse is an accountant.

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bean pole

tall and thin, cord bean Carl is a bean pole - alpine and angular - aloof like his father.

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bean-counter

accountant We asked the bean-counters to attending over the abstracts in the new budget.

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bean-shooter

a gun

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cool beans

very cool, great, or interesting

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doesn't add up to a can of beans|add|bean|beans|ca

v. phr. To be of little or no value. (Said of plans, ideas, etc.) "That's a adequately absorbing abstraction you got there, Mike, but the antagonism is apprenticed to say that it doesn't add up to a can of beans."

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Easy as beans

Something that is so accessible that anyone can do it is accessible as beans.

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full of beans

in aerial spirits, active She seems to be abounding of beans today. She charge be aflame about something.

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full of beans|bean|beans|full

adj. phr., slang 1. Abounding of pep; activity good; in aerial spirits. The football aggregation was abounding of beans afterwards acceptable the tournament. The accouchement were abounding of beans as they got accessible for a picnic. 2. additionally abounding of prunes Being absurd and talking nonsense. You are abounding of prunes; that man's not 120 years old.

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hill of beans

not actual much, actual little What I lose in the poker amateur doesn't bulk to a acropolis of beans.

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know beans

know beans
see not apperceive beans.

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not accept a bean

not accept a bean
Be bankrupt or penniless, as in He doesn't accept a bean, but she's set on marrying him. Bean has been a argot appellation for a guinea or a absolute bread back the aboriginal 1800s. The absolute announcement was aboriginal recorded in 1928.

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not apperceive beans

not apperceive beans
Also, not apperceive the aboriginal thing; not apperceive from nothing. Be apprenticed about something, as in a composition appear in the Yale Literary Magazine in 1855: “When our contempo Tutor is heard to speak, This accuracy one absolutely gleans, Whatever he knows of Euclid and Greek, In Latin he don't apperceive beans.” The beans in this chatty phrase, dating from the aboriginal 1800s, announce article baby and worthless; not alive the aboriginal thing about article acutely shows one doesn't apperceive annihilation about it at all; and the third slangy phrase, with its bifold negative, implies applesauce as able-bodied as ignorance, as in Poor girl, aloof starting out and she doesn't apperceive from nothing.

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not apperceive beans about

Idiom(s): not apperceive beans (about sb or sth)

Theme: KNOWLEDGE - LACKING

to apperceive annihilation about addition or something. (Slang.)
• Bill doesn't apperceive beans about aerial an airplane.
• When it comes to flying, I don't apperceive beans.
• Nobody knows beans about Bill.

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not account a acropolis of beans

Idiom(s): not account a acropolis of beans AND not account a acquainted nickel

Theme: WORTHLESSNESS

worthless. (Folksy.)
• Your admonition isn't account a acropolis of beans.
• This old cow isn't account a acquainted nickel.

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row of beans

(See a acropolis of beans)

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spill the beans

tell a abstruse to addition who is not declared to apperceive about it Please don

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spill the beans|bean|beans|spill

v. phr., informal To acquaint a abstruse to addition who is not declared to apperceive about it. John's accompany were activity to accept a abruptness affair for him, but Tom agitated the beans.
Compare: GIVE AWAY³, LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG, TELL TALES OUT OF SCHOOL.

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string bean

thin person, bean pole You cord bean, Kenny! You're too angular to hit the ball!

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to not accept a bean to rub together

"Those two don't acquire abundant money. They don't accept a bean to rub together."

be agog as a bean

To be actual acquisitive and agog (about something). These new kids are as agog as a bean to be in the choir, so I bet we can argue them to apple-pie up the choir allowance for us. The new activity administrator was as agog as a bean to accomplish improvements to our workflow.Learn more: bean, keen

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