"Three skips of a louse" nghĩa là gì?

Tiền là giấy, đốt là mất. Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels

"Three skips of a louse" nghĩa là vấn đề nhỏ nhặt, không đáng kể. Từ "louse" là con rận.

Ví dụ
She did not care three skips of a louse for him.

She finally turned him out of doors and said she didn't consider him worth three skips of a louse!

I am drawing straws this day after late night viewing of #SonsOfLiberty. My employ this day will be worth three skips of a louse!

They would fasten on the hard crust (vỏ cứng), and would gnaw (gặm) it, while two crumbs (mẩu) of it held together; and, what was more extraordinary, the would proudly declare at the time, that it was the honour of the service which they regarded, and the dignity (phẩm chất) of their offices; and that as to the emoluments (lương), they did not value the money three skips of a louse.


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