| 单词 | not worth the paper it's written on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot (also hardly) worth the paper it's written on d. not (also hardly) worth the paper it's written on: worth very little, valueless; of little or no account. ΚΠ 1882 W. D. Howells in Cent. Mag. Apr. 930/1 I don't propose to leave this article here until they steal my thunder, and then have it thrown back on my hands not worth the paper it's written on. 1908 H. G. Wells War in Air i. 31 If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this..the British Empire's done... The Union Jack, so to speak, won't be worth the paper it's written on. 1975 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 74 75 ‘An oral agreement’, Samuel Goldwyn quipped, ‘isn't worth the paper it's written on.’ 1996 Daily Star 26 Feb. 31/2 Many people take out cheap insurance only to find that there are so many ifs and buts that the policy is hardly worth the paper it's written on. < as lemmas |
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