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"Not worth a plugged nickel" nghĩa là gì?
25 Aug, 2021
"Not worth a plugged nickel" -> nghĩa là hoàn toàn vô giá trị, vô dụng; 'không đáng một hào'.
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The culture has captured Payton as well, witnessed (chứng kiến) by “Hit The Sean Payton,” by Shamarr Allen. Those who do not change with the times are dinosaurs, extinct, fading into oblivion, not worth a plugged nickel. Payton remains hip while his team hops deeper into the playoffs.
A Missouri woman’s plan to pay her property taxes was not worth a plugged nickel to county officials. Neither was 1,419 rolls of the real coins. But it made sense to Cynthia Lockett. Lockett, of Kansas City, irate (giận dữ) with the 2019 assessment (số tiền phải trả) that increased her land value by 135% and her overall market value by 45%, decided to pay her tax bill in nickels, WDAF reported.
“Cause I’m (really) sick of the negative (tiêu cực) (ridiculous garbage), ya got it? Everything you guys write, the dumb (gentlepeople) in the seats read, and we hear the same (hurtful) lines. Negative (writers). No wonder you’re carrying a pad and a paper around. You’re not worth a (plugged nickel) to do anything else, you (horrible human beings).”
“I guess he wanted to have total control over what he built, probably,” Betz surmises (phỏng đoán). “My educated guess — which is not worth a plugged nickel — is that King wanted a house parallel to the bluff (dốc đứng) rather than perpendicular (vuông góc) to it (as the Wright house was) so he could have a lot better view out over St. Louis.”
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