英语词汇“not to care, give, be worth, , a tinker's”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. not to care, give, be worth, (etc.), a tinker's curse, cuss, or damn and variants: not to care or be worth anything. Also elliptically not to care, give, be worth, (etc.), a tinker's. [An intensification of the earlier ‘not to care, or be worth, a curse or damn’ (see curse n. 2, damn n. Phrases 2), with reference to tinkers’ supposed penchant for profanity: see 1. Compare also quot. 1884, in which ‘not to care a straw’ is similarly intensified.] A conjecture suggesting a link with soldering appears in quot. 1875 and is repeated with variations elsewhere, but the alleged sense of tinker's dam seems to lack supporting contextual evidence and is therefore not covered in this entry. Instances of the phrase with the spelling dam may show awareness of this theory, but are more likely simply to be using a spelling considered more polite than damn (see dam at damn adj. and adv. Forms).

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2575/2 Tinker's-dam, a wall of dough raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder. The material can be but once used; being consequently thrown away as worthless, it has passed into a proverb, usually involving the wrong spelling of the otherwise innocent word ‘dam’.]

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (intransitive)] > be of little worth

not to care, give, be worth, (etc.), a tinker's curse, cuss, or damn1578

1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 1st Pt. iv. vii. sig. F.i Nay, for my head, care not a Tinkers torde.

1813 D. W. Paynter Godfrey Ranger II. viii. 143 ‘They a'n't worth a pedlar's curse!’ ‘You mean a tinker's curse, friend!’.

1817 N. Y. Evening Post 6 June 2/3 Not worth a tinker's blessing!

1839 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 25 Apr. (1981) I. 72 'Tis true they are not worth a ‘tinker's damn’.

1862 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward his Bk. 155 Not keerin a tinker's cuss.

1884 St. James's Gaz. 24 Apr. 12/1 I don't care two tinkers' straws if you do.

1947 O. Sitwell Novels of G. Meredith 4 The human being who is not worth a tinker's cuss,—or, in a more elegant simile, two hoots—does not exist.

1967 Boston Globe 18 May 27/1 No program, no reform, no matter how well meant, is worth a tinker's dam without it.

1983 J. Symons Name of Annabel Lee ii. viii. 139 I don't give a tinker's, if you'll forgive the old fashioned way of putting it, who killed Ira Wolfdale.

2005 B. Keating & S. Keating Blood Sisters (2006) xxvii. 527 You bloody well knew that was the way she felt about you. But you didn't give a tinker's curse about that, did you Anthony?

单词	not to care, give, be worth, , a tinker's
释义	> as lemmas not to care, give, be worth, (etc.), a tinker's P2. not to care, give, be worth, (etc.), a tinker's curse, cuss, or damn and variants: not to care or be worth anything. Also elliptically not to care, give, be worth, (etc.), a tinker's. [An intensification of the earlier ‘not to care, or be worth, a curse or damn’ (see curse n. 2, damn n. Phrases 2), with reference to tinkers’ supposed penchant for profanity: see 1. Compare also quot. 1884, in which ‘not to care a straw’ is similarly intensified.] A conjecture suggesting a link with soldering appears in quot. 1875 and is repeated with variations elsewhere, but the alleged sense of tinker's dam seems to lack supporting contextual evidence and is therefore not covered in this entry. Instances of the phrase with the spelling dam may show awareness of this theory, but are more likely simply to be using a spelling considered more polite than damn (see dam at damn adj. and adv. Forms). 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2575/2 Tinker's-dam, a wall of dough raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder. The material can be but once used; being consequently thrown away as worthless, it has passed into a proverb, usually involving the wrong spelling of the otherwise innocent word ‘dam’.] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (intransitive)] > be of little worth not to care, give, be worth, (etc.), a tinker's curse, cuss, or damn1578 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 1st Pt. iv. vii. sig. F.i Nay, for my head, care not a Tinkers torde. 1813 D. W. Paynter Godfrey Ranger II. viii. 143 ‘They a'n't worth a pedlar's curse!’ ‘You mean a tinker's curse, friend!’. 1817 N. Y. Evening Post 6 June 2/3 Not worth a tinker's blessing! 1839 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 25 Apr. (1981) I. 72 'Tis true they are not worth a ‘tinker's damn’. 1862 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward his Bk. 155 Not keerin a tinker's cuss. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 24 Apr. 12/1 I don't care two tinkers' straws if you do. 1947 O. Sitwell Novels of G. Meredith 4 The human being who is not worth a tinker's cuss,—or, in a more elegant simile, two hoots—does not exist. 1967 Boston Globe 18 May 27/1 No program, no reform, no matter how well meant, is worth a tinker's dam without it. 1983 J. Symons Name of Annabel Lee ii. viii. 139 I don't give a tinker's, if you'll forgive the old fashioned way of putting it, who killed Ira Wolfdale. 2005 B. Keating & S. Keating Blood Sisters (2006) xxvii. 527 You bloody well knew that was the way she felt about you. But you didn't give a tinker's curse about that, did you Anthony? extracted from tinkern.¹ < as lemmas
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