| 单词 | not worth a continental |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot worth a continental b. A currency note issued by the Continental Congress during the war; the depreciation of which afterwards gave rise to the phrases not worth a continental and not to care (or give) a continental. Originally U.S. ΚΠ 1786 P. M. Freneau Poems 323 That damnable bubble the old continental That took people in at this wonderful crisis. 1821 J. F. Cooper Spy I. xvi. 238 If it's silver or goold..it's but little I have, though I've a trifling bit of the continental. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 159 ‘I outs with a handfull o' the right stuff; old continental’—paper money issued by the colonies. 1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow i. xix. 246 Were I a rebel, you would have found naught but a roll of beggarly continentals. 1842 in T. H. Benton Thirty Years View (1856) II. 392 Within you have a few continentals or promises to pay in gold or silver, which may now be serviceable to the Treasury. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents at Home 20 (Farmer) He didn't give a continental for anybody. 1874 B. F. Taylor World on Wheels ii. 203 He did not care a ‘Continental’ for the whole business. 1882 G. W. Peck Peck's Sunshine 180 The next day he is all played out and not worth a continental. 1897 Daily News 16 June 7/6 ‘Excuse me, Mr. Barnato’... ‘But I think you will admit I ought to know what I did.’ ‘I don't care a continental what you know,’ Barney replied. 1907 Daily Chron. 5 Nov. 6/6 The ‘New York American’..incidentally isn't caring a continental what London thinks. 1927 S. Williams Drury Club Case vii. 137 I'm not concerned for Hal. I don't care a continental what happens to him. 1931 J. T. Adams Epic of Amer. iv. 98 The phrase ‘not worth a Continental’ was so impressed upon the people that, unlike the money to which it referred, it gained a lasting circulation. 1968 G. de Fraga Murder at Cookout xxv. 130 It was murder, m'boy! And I don't give a continental which of them did it. < as lemmas |
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