Machiavel
/ˈmakɪəvɛl
/noun archaic
A person compared to Machiavelli for favouring expediency over morality.The picture could be a physiognomical paradigm of a conspirator, a machinator, a schemer, a Machiavel....
- He notes that Carew, though a murderous Machiavel, never betrayed his sworn allegiance as the rebel chieftains did.
- Shakespeare, in one of his works, mentions ‘the murderous Machiavel.’
- not give a shit
- not give a stuff
- not give a tinker's curse (or cuss or damn)
- not give (or care) a damn
- not give (or care) a fig
- not give (or care) a monkey's
- not give (or care) a rat's ass
- not give (or care) a whoop
- not give something houseroom
- not-go
- not go any further
- not guilty
- not half
- no thanks to
- not have a bar of
- not have a cat in hell's chance
- not have a leg to stand on
- not have a penny to bless oneself with
- not have a pot to piss in
- not have a prayer
- not have a shot in one's locker
- not have a —— bone in one's body
- not have the faintest
- not have the foggiest (idea or notion)
- not have two pennies (or farthings etc.) to rub together