Significado: a hill of beans(Informal) algo trivial e e sem valor, que não merece consideração
bean Idioma
a hill of beans
a small amount, very little The money he lost doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
bean-counter
accountant We asked the bean-counters to look over the figures in the new budget.
bean pole
tall and thin, string bean Carl is a bean pole - tall and skinny - just like his father.
full of beans
in high spirits, energetic She seems to be full of beans today. She must be excited about something.
hill of beans
not very much, very little What I lose in the poker games doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
row of beans
(See a hill of beans)
spill the beans
tell a secret to someone who is not supposed to know about it Please don
string bean
thin person, bean pole You string bean, Kenny! You're too skinny to hit the ball!
bean
head or brain
bean-shooter
a gun
cool beans
very cool, great, or interesting
not worth a hill of beans
Idiom(s): not worth a hill of beans AND not worth a plugged nickel
Theme: WORTHLESSNESS
worthless. (Folksy.) • Your advice isn't worth a hill of beans. • This old cow isn't worth a plugged nickel.
not know beans about
Idiom(s): not know beans (about sb or sth)
Theme: KNOWLEDGE - LACKING
to know nothing about someone or something. (Slang.) • Bill doesn't know beans about flying an airplane. • When it comes to flying, I don't know beans. • Nobody knows beans about Bill.
Bean counter
A bean counter is an accountant.
Easy as beans
Something that is so easy that anyone can do it is easy as beans.
to not have a bean to rub together
"Those two don't earn enough money. They don't have a bean to rub together."
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v. phr. To be of little or no value. (Said of plans, ideas, etc.) "That's a fairly interesting concept you got there, Mike, but the competition is bound to say that it doesn't add up to a can of beans."
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adj. phr., slang 1. Full of pep; feeling good; in high spirits. The football team was full of beans after winning the tournament.The children were full of beans as they got ready for a picnic. 2. also full of prunes Being foolish and talking nonsense. You are full of prunes; that man's not 120 years old.
spill the beans|bean|beans|spill
v. phr., informal To tell a secret to someone who is not supposed to know about it. John's friends were going to have a surprise party for him, but Tom spilled the beans. Compare: GIVE AWAY3, LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG, TELL TALES OUT OF SCHOOL.
not have a bean Be destitute or penniless, as in He doesn't have a bean, but she's set on marrying him. Bean has been a slang term for a guinea or a sovereign coin since the early 1800s. The precise expression was first recorded in 1928.
not know beans
not know beans Also, not know the first thing; not know from nothing. Be ignorant about something, as in a poem published in the Yale Literary Magazine in 1855: “When our recent Tutor is heard to speak, This truth one certainly gleans, Whatever he knows of Euclid and Greek, In Latin he don't know beans.” The beans in this colloquial phrase, dating from the early 1800s, signify something small and worthless; not knowing the first thing about something clearly shows one doesn't know anything about it at all; and the third slangy phrase, with its double negative, implies stupidity as well as ignorance, as in Poor girl, just starting out and she doesn't know from nothing.
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Dicionário de palavras semelhantes, Diferentes palavras, Sinônimos, Expressões idiomáticas para Idioma bean