Significato: beans

biːnn. fagiolo, pianta leguminosa; piccolo seme commestibile della pianta del fagiolo; semi simili a fagiolo (come i chicchi del caffè); piccolo programma di applicazione con un compito specifico (nella lingua di programmazione Java)v. (fam) colpire alla testa

beans Idioma

a hill of beans

a small amount, very little The money he lost doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

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

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.

Easy as beans

Something that is so easy that anyone can do it is easy as beans.

doesn't add up to a can of beans|add|bean|beans|ca

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."

full of beans|bean|beans|full

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.

know beans

know beans
see not know beans.

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.