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Idiom

for beans

Meaning

Synonym of at all.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I cannot play the guitar for beans.”

“He practiced for hours, but he still could not sing for beans.”

“Despite his years of formal training in the culinary arts, the chef admitted he could not bake a simple loaf of bread for beans.”

Examples

simple

“I cannot play the guitar for beans.”

contextual

“He practiced for hours, but he still could not sing for beans.”

complex

“Despite his years of formal training in the culinary arts, the chef admitted he could not bake a simple loaf of bread for beans.”

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