"Not worth a tinker's damn" nghĩa là gì?

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"Not worth a tinker's damn/curse" nghĩa là chẳng có tí giá trị nào.

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All in all, Bret ain't done all that bad for an ex-pig farmer. I wish him the best even though my wishes never have been worth a tinker's damn. Nonetheless, I done wished.

Then there is the dilemma (nan giải) of Israeli society, which itself is torn (giằng xé) between support of, and sharp criticism (chỉ trích gay gắt) of, the right-wing government. Said Sobol: “How can we bridge the gap (thu hẹp khoảng cách) between American Jews and Israelis when the gap within Israel itself is growing — and theater as a vehicle to bridge this gap is not worth a tinker’s curse!”

“We don’t want tradition (truyền thống),” declared Ford in the Chicago Tribune in 1916. “We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history that we make today.” Their extremely American conviction (niềm tin) that history was bunk (biến mất) liberated (giải phóng) the 1960s types and sea warriors from the customs and ways of thinking that had stood the test of time—or so they thought.


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