not worth a (tinker's) damn Idiom, Proverb

damn it

it is very annoying or frustrating, darn it Damn it! That cigarette smoke is making me ill.

damned if you do and damned if you don't

you are blamed if you do it and blamed if you do not, between the devil..., can't have it both ways "If you offer to help, he refuses; if you don't offer, he complains. You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

give a damn/shit

care about, give a hoot Look at his hair. He doesn't give a damn about his appearance.

can I live damn

leave me alone; stay out of my business

damn all

absolutely nothing

damn right

(interj) in agreement with someone; that's true:"Damn right! That test sucked"

damn straight

correct; damn right:"You're damn straight! I'm goin' to crach now"

you damn skippy

yes, with emphasis; "Are you going to see that model tonight? You damn skippy!"

damn with faint praise

Idiom(s): damn sb or sth with faint praise

Theme: 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."

not account a (tinker's) damn

Worthless. The archive of similes blame “without worth” is acutely endless. This one, alpha activity as “a tinker’s curse,” again became a tinker’s dam, a bank of chef aloft about a abode area a plumber is aggravating to adjustment a aperture with solder. The chef holds the adhesive until it hardens and again is discarded. Misspelling angry it into damn and today “tinker” is usually omitted. (However, “damn” abandoned was additionally acclimated in the eighteenth century.) Among the hundreds of similes cogent pettiness that are still heard today are not account a bean (see acropolis of beans); not account a fig (also Learn added fig); not account a button (thirteenth century); not account a (brass) division (seventeenth century); not account the cardboard it’s accounting on (usually activated to an IOU or bad check); not account a pin (fifteenth century); not account a acquainted nickel (plug meant a abashed coin; nineteenth century); not account the crumb to draft it up (nineteenth century); not account a rap (a affected half-penny circulating in Ireland in the aboriginal eighteenth century); not account a red cent (the cent actuality the aboriginal American coin, red because it acclimated to be fabricated of authentic copper; nineteenth century); not account a harbinger (fourteenth century). Learn added worth one's salt.Learn more: damn, not, worth

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