Idiom
brass farthing
Meaning
Something worthless or of small value.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I do not care a brass farthing about his opinion.”
“The old machine is broken beyond repair and is not worth a brass farthing.”
“He realized that his once-prized collection of trinkets was not worth a brass farthing in the current market.”
Examples
simple
“I do not care a brass farthing about his opinion.”
contextual
“The old machine is broken beyond repair and is not worth a brass farthing.”
complex
“He realized that his once-prized collection of trinkets was not worth a brass farthing in the current market.”
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