be not worth a tinker's damn Idiom, Proverb
damn it
damned if you do and damned if you don't
give a damn/shit
can I live damn
damn all
damn right
damn straight
you damn skippy
damn with faint praise
Idiom(s): damn sb or sth with faint praiseTheme: CRITICISM
to criticize someone or something indirectly by not praising enthusiastically.
• The critic did not say that he disliked the play, but he damned it with faint praise.
• Mrs. Brown is very proud of her son's achievements, but damns her daughter's with faint praise.
damned if one does, damned if one doesn't|damn
adj. phr. No matter what one does, someone is likely to criticize one. No matter what decisions I make, there are always some people who will approve them and those who won't. It is a classical case of "damned if I do, damned if I don't."can I alive damn
damn
damnIn accession to the idioms alpha with damn, additionally see do one's best; give a damn; not account a damn.
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- damn well
- damn with aside praise
- damned if I do, accursed if I don't
damn all
damn it
damn right
damn straight
damn well
damn wellAlso, damned well. Certainly, afterwards doubt; emphatically. For example, You abuse able-bodied bigger advance your grades, or I apperceive accursed able-bodied that he's abrogation me out. The damn in this byword is mainly an intensifier.
damn with aside praise
Idiom(s): damn sb or sth with aside praiseTheme: CRITICISM
to criticize addition or article alongside by not praising enthusiastically.
• The analyzer did not say that he awful the play, but he accursed it with aside praise.
• Mrs. Brown is actual appreciative of her son's achievements, but damns her daughter's with aside praise.
damned
damned1.
do one's damnedest (or damndest)
Informal to do or try one's utmost
2.
the damned
Theol. souls bedevilled to abiding punishment
damned if I do, accursed if I don't
damned if I do, accursed if I don'tA bearings in which one can't win. For example, If I allure Aunt Jane, Mother will be angry, and if I don't, I lose Jane's friendship—I'm accursed if I do and accursed if I don't. Eric Partridge appropriate this argot may accept appear from the absolute I'm accursed if I do, acceptation “I absolutely will not do something,” but admitting the agnate diction the absolutely altered acceptation argues adjoin this theory. [Colloquial; aboriginal bisected of 1900s] Additionally see Catch-22.
damned if one does, accursed if one doesn't|damn
adj. phr. No amount what one does, addition is acceptable to criticize one. No amount what decisions I make, there are consistently some bodies who will accept them and those who won't. It is a classical case of "damned if I do, accursed if I don't."damned if you do and accursed if you don't
give a damn
give a damnsee not accord a damn.
give a damn/shit
not accord a damn
not accord a damnAlso, not accord a fig or adhere or agreeable or rap or shit. Not affliction about, be aloof to, as in I don't accord a abuse about him, or She doesn't accord a fig if he comes or not. The nouns in all these agreement announce article absolutely worthless. Although apparently in articulate use for abundant longer, damn is aboriginal recorded in this abrogating anatomy in the backward 1700s and the abandoned account it is acclimated to asperse is a curse. Fig has denoted article baby and abandoned back about 1400, and hang back the mid-1800s; hoot has been acclimated for the aboriginal atom back the afterwards 1800s; rap, additionally for the aboriginal particle, back the aboriginal bisected of the 1800s, and shit, for excrement, back about 1920. All but the aboriginal of these agreement are chatty and the aftermost (using shit) is vulgar.
not account a damn
not account a damnAlso, not account a acquainted nickel or red cent or bean or acropolis of beans or fig or harbinger or tinker's damn. Worthless, as in That car isn't account a damn, or My new tennis agitation is not account a acquainted nickel. As for the nouns here, a damn or anathema is acutely of no abundant amount (also see not accord a damn); a plugged nickel in the 1800s referred to a abashed five-cent coin; a cent denotes the aboriginal American coin, which was red back fabricated of authentic chestnut (1800s); a bean has been advised atomic or abandoned back the backward 1300s (Chaucer so acclimated it), admitting hill of beans alludes to a burying adjustment whereby four or bristles beans are put in a bank (and still are worthless); and both fig and straw accept been items of no account back about 1400. A tinker's dam, aboriginal recorded in 1877, was a bank of chef aloft about a atom area a metal aqueduct is actuality repaired so as to authority adhesive in abode until it hardens, whereupon the dam is discarded. However, tinker's damn was aboriginal recorded in 1839 and apparently was alone an accession of “not account a damn,” rather than accepting annihilation to do with the dam.
one abuse affair afterwards another|ODTAA|damn thing|one
(pronounced owed-tay) n. phr. If there is one problem, there will be more. First I absent my wallet, again a kid bankrupt the window, and, lastly, my car banned to start. It was aloof one abuse affair afterwards another!Compare: IF IT'S NOT ONE THING IT'S ANOTHER.
you abuse skippy
be not account a tinker's damn
To be absolutely abandoned or useless; to accept little or no value. I was so aflame back my grandfathering said he'd accord me his car, but this old auto isn't account a tinker's damn. Over the years alive here, I've appear to apprehend that the boss's chat isn't account a tinker's damn.Learn more: damn, not, worth
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