Not worth a bucket of warm spit
adjective phrase
(Variations: spit in the wind or dry spit on a hot day may replace a bucket of warm spit) Of very little value; worthless: The new telephones are not worth a bucket of warm spit/ a cable TV contract for the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island that’s worth about as much as a bucket of warm spit/ Some is good. Really worthwhile. But a lot of it ain’t worth spit in the wind/ In the great scheme of things, woodchucks are not worth dry spit on a hot day (1970s+)
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adjective phrase : Those promises aren’t worth a damn adverb phrase Not well at all: This guy doesn’t sing worth a damn/ She doesn’t like me worth a shit (first form 1817+, second 1920s+) Also, not worth a plugged nickel or red cent or bean or hill of beans or fig or straw or tinker’s […]
- Not worth a hill of beans
adjective phrase Worthless; useless (1863+)
- Not worth a plugged nickel
adjective phrase Valueless: His word isn’t worth a plugged nickel [1940s+; a plugged coin was counterfeit or had an insertion of inferior metal]
- No two ways about it
adverb phrase Clearly; definitely; sure as shit: No two ways about it, this guy is nuts (1818+) No room for difference of opinion, no alternative, as in We have to agree on the nomination, and no two ways about it. [ Early 1800s ]
- Not wrapped tight
adjective phrase Crazy; eccentric; not all there, not buttoned up too tightly: Your father was not wrapped real tight. His loaf was missing several slices/ Some MEs, who weren’t wrapped too tightly to begin with [1968+; fr the image of something wrapped neatly without loose ends, spillage, etc]