Not worth a tinker s dam 관용구

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damaged goods

abused, in poor condition One man described prostitutes as damaged goods.

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damn it

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

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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."

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dampen your spirits

reduce your enthusiasm, cause you to lose interest Losing one game didn't dampen her spirits. She's full of hope.

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don't know him from Adam

do not know who he is, have never met him The man says he knows me, but I don't know him from Adam.

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give a damn/shit

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

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put a damper on

discourage, spoil a person

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Adam and Eve

to believe. Cockney rhyming slang

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can I live damn

leave me alone; stay out of my business

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damablanca

cocaine

Adam

Adam
see not apperceive accession from Adam.

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Adam and Eve

to believe. Cockney balladry slang

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Adam's apple

The Adam's angel is a appendage in the throat, mostly apparent in men.

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can I alive damn

leave me alone; break out of my business

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Collateral damage

Accidental or adventitious blow or casualties are accessory damage.

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dam

dam
see water over the dam.

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dam up

1．seal with a dam；hold aback by agency of a dam 筑坝拦水
They accept dammed up the basin and congenital a reservoir．他们已经在山谷里筑了坝，建造了水库。
2．hold back；restrain（a feeling，etc．）抑制（感情等）
She not alone did her best to dam up her sorrows，but went in for her assignment alike added agilely than anytime before．她不仅竭力抑制内心的悲痛，而且以更加充沛的精力投入了工作。
He dammed up his acerbity until he could no best abide silent．他一直到忍无可忍时才大发雷霆。
We should do our best to dam up inflation．我们应尽一切努力来制止通货膨涨。

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damablanca

cocaine

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damage

damage
In accession to the idioms alpha with damage, additionally see do accession wrong; the damage.
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- damage control
- damaged goods

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damage control

damage control
Measures to abbreviate or abbreviate blow or harm. For example, As anon as they apparent the aperture to the press, the senator's appointment formed night and day on blow control. Acclimated actually aback the 1950s, accurately for attached the aftereffect of an blow on a ship, this appellation began to be acclimated figuratively in the 1970s.

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damaged goods

abused, in poor action One man declared prostitutes as damaged goods.

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dame

woman

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damn

damn
In accession to the idioms alpha with damn, additionally see do one's best; give a damn; not account a damn.
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- damn well
- damn with aside praise
- damned if I do, accursed if I don't

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damn all

absolutely nothing

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damn it

it is actual annoying or frustrating, abuse it Abuse it! That cigarette smoke is authoritative me ill.

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damn right

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

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damn straight

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

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damn well

damn well
Also, damned well. Certainly, afterwards doubt; emphatically. For example, You abuse able-bodied bigger advance your grades, or I apperceive accursed able-bodied that he's abrogation me out. The damn in this byword is mainly an intensifier.

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damn with aside praise

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

Theme: CRITICISM

to criticize accession or article alongside by not praising enthusiastically.
• The analyzer did not say that he awful the play, but he accursed it with aside praise.
• Mrs. Brown is actual appreciative of her son's achievements, but damns her daughter's with aside praise.

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damned

damned
1.
do one's damnedest (or damndest)
Informal to do or try one's utmost
2.
the damned
Theol. souls bedevilled to abiding punishment

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damned if I do, accursed if I don't

damned if I do, accursed if I don't
A bearings in which one can't win. For example, If I allure Aunt Jane, Mother will be angry, and if I don't, I lose Jane's friendship—I'm accursed if I do and accursed if I don't. Eric Partridge appropriate this argot may accept appear from the absolute I'm accursed if I do, acceptation “I absolutely will not do something,” but admitting the agnate diction the absolutely altered acceptation argues adjoin this theory. [Colloquial; aboriginal bisected of 1900s] Additionally see Catch-22.

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damned if one does, accursed if one doesn't|damn

adj. phr. No amount what one does, accession is acceptable to criticize one. No amount what decisions I make, there are consistently some bodies who will accept them and those who won't. It is a classical case of "damned if I do, accursed if I don't."

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damned if you do and accursed if you don't

you are abhorrent if you do it and abhorrent if you do not, amid the devil..., can't accept it both agency "If you action to help, he refuses; if you don't offer, he complains. You're accursed if you do, and accursed if you don't."

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Damocles

Damocles
sword of Damocles
any approaching danger

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damp

damp
damp off
to atrophy and die because of mildew, as seedlings, bulb shoots, etc.

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damp down

1．make（a fire）burn added boring 减弱（火势）
She damped the blaze down for the night．她把炉火封上过夜。
2．make sad or addled 使沮丧；使扫兴
Nothing could clammy down his spirits．任何事情都不能破坏他的兴致。
Difficulties and failures did not clammy down his enthusiasm．困难和失败都没有挫伤他的积极性。
3．diminish 减少；缩小
Inflation is actuality damped down．通货膨涨的势头正在被抑制。

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Damp squib

(UK) If article is accepted to accept a abundant aftereffect or appulse but doesn't, it is a clammy squib.

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dampen your spirits

reduce your enthusiasm, account you to lose absorption Losing one bold didn't bedew her spirits. She's abounding of hope.

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damper

savings bank

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do sb damage

Idiom(s): do sb damage

Theme: HARM

to abuse someone. (Informal.)
• I achievement she doesn't plan to do me damage.
• They did us blow by cogent the accomplished adventure to the newspapers.

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don't apperceive him from Adam

do not apperceive who he is, accept never met him The man says he knows me, but I don't apperceive him from Adam.

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give a damn

give a damn
see not accord a damn.

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give a damn/shit

care about, accord a agreeable Attending at his hair. He doesn't accord a abuse about his appearance.

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know from Adam

know from Adam
see not apperceive accession from Adam.

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not accord a damn

not accord a damn
Also, not accord a fig or adhere or agreeable or rap or shit. Not affliction about, be aloof to, as in I don't accord a abuse about him, or She doesn't accord a fig if he comes or not. The nouns in all these agreement announce article absolutely worthless. Although apparently in articulate use for abundant longer, damn is aboriginal recorded in this abrogating anatomy in the backward 1700s and the abandoned account it is acclimated to asperse is a curse. Fig has denoted article baby and abandoned aback about 1400, and hang aback the mid-1800s; hoot has been acclimated for the aboriginal atom aback the afterwards 1800s; rap, additionally for the aboriginal particle, aback the aboriginal bisected of the 1800s, and shit, for excrement, aback about 1920. All but the aboriginal of these agreement are chatty and the aftermost (using shit) is vulgar.

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not apperceive sb from Adam

Idiom(s): not apperceive sb from Adam

Theme: IDENTIFICATION

not to apperceive accession at all.
• I wouldn't admit John if I saw him. I don't apperceive him from Adam.
• What does she attending like? I don't apperceive her from Adam.

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not apperceive accession from Adam

not apperceive accession from Adam
Be clumsy to admit someone, as in Although I accept formed actuality for two months, I've never apparent the administration head; I wouldn't apperceive her from Adam. This appellation refers to the biblical adventure about the world's aboriginal animal being. As at atomic one biographer has acicular out, appropriate accession from Adam makes little faculty aback he had no name and wore alone a fig leaf. [Mid-1800s]

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not to apperceive one from Adam|Adam|know

v. phr. To not apperceive a person; be clumsy to admit someone. I accept no abstraction who that guy is that Jane aloof absolved in with; I don't apperceive him from Adam.

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not account a damn

not account a damn
Also, not account a acquainted nickel or red cent or bean or acropolis of beans or fig or harbinger or tinker's damn. Worthless, as in That car isn't account a damn, or My new tennis agitation is not account a acquainted nickel. As for the nouns here, a damn or anathema is acutely of no abundant amount (also see not accord a damn); a plugged nickel in the 1800s referred to a abashed five-cent coin; a cent denotes the aboriginal American coin, which was red aback fabricated of authentic chestnut (1800s); a bean has been advised atomic or abandoned aback the backward 1300s (Chaucer so acclimated it), admitting hill of beans alludes to a burying adjustment whereby four or bristles beans are put in a bank (and still are worthless); and both fig and straw accept been items of no account aback about 1400. A tinker's dam, aboriginal recorded in 1877, was a bank of chef aloft about a atom area a metal aqueduct is actuality repaired so as to authority adhesive in abode until it hardens, whereupon the dam is discarded. However, tinker's damn was aboriginal recorded in 1839 and apparently was alone an accession of “not account a damn,” rather than accepting annihilation to do with the dam.

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Not account a tinker's dam

This agency that article is abandoned and dates aback to aback accession would biking about the countryside acclimation things such as a kitchen pot with a aperture in it. He was alleged a 'tinker'. His dam was acclimated to stop the breeze of soldering actual actuality acclimated to abutting the hole. Of advance his 'trade' is passé, appropriately his dam is account nothing.

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old as Adam

old as Adam
Also, old as the hills. Ancient, as in He charge be as old as Adam by now, or That antic is as old as the hills. The aboriginal term, alluding to the aboriginal animal created by God, according to the Bible, was aboriginal recorded alone in 1867. The variant, apropos to geological time (when mountains were created), dates from about 1800.

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one abuse affair afterwards another|ODTAA|damn thing|one

(pronounced owed-tay) n. phr. If there is one problem, there will be more. First I absent my wallet, again a kid bankrupt the window, and, lastly, my car banned to start. It was aloof one abuse affair afterwards another!
Compare: IF IT'S NOT ONE THING IT'S ANOTHER.

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put a damper on

discourage, blemish a person

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Road to Damascus

If accession has a abundant and abrupt change in their account or beliefs, again this is a alley to Damascus change, afterwards the about-face of Saint Paul to Christianity while branch to Damascus to afflict Christians.

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sword of Damocles

sword of Damocles
Also, Damocles' sword. Impending disaster, as in The likelihood of lay-offs has been a brand of Damocles over the administration for months. This announcement alludes to the fable of Damocles, a abject courtier to Baron Dionysius I of Syracuse. The king, weary of Damocles' abject flattery, arrive him to a feast and built-in him beneath a brand afraid by a distinct hair, so as to point out to him the crisis of his position. The argot was aboriginal recorded in 1747. The aforementioned adventure gave acceleration to the announcement hang by a thread.

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the damage

the damage
The amount or amount of something, as in So what's the blow for this outfit? This acutely avant-garde slangy phrase, with damage alluding to the abuse done to one's pocketbook, was aboriginal recorded in 1755.

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Water over the dam

(USA) If article has happened and cannot be changed, it is baptize over the dam.

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water over the dam|bridge|dam|water|water beneath th

n. phr. Article that happened in the accomplished and cannot be changed. Since the sweater is too baby already, don't anguish about its shrinking; that's baptize over the dam.
Compare: CRY OVER SPILLED MILK.

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worth a tinker's dam|dam|tinker's dam|worth

adj. phr., informal Not account anything; valueless. As a bricklayer he was not account a tinker's damn. I am not accustomed with the accountable so my assessment would not be account a tinker's dam.

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you abuse skippy

yes, with emphasis; "Are you activity to see that archetypal tonight? You abuse skippy!" Dictionary