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1 two and a plack
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2 plack
[plæk] n1) ист. шотландская мелкая медная монета2) шотл. грош, мелочь♢
not worth a plack - ничтожный, ничего не стоящий; ≅ гроша ломаного не стоитplack and bawbee /bodle/ - всё до гроша
two and a plack - безделица, пустяк
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3 plack
(историческое) шотландская мелкая медная монета( шотландское) грош, мелочь > not worth a * ничтожный, ничего не стоящий;
гроша ломаного не стоит > * and bawbee /boddle/ все до гроша > two and a * безделица, пустяк -
4 безделица
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5 пустяк
1) General subject: a matter of indifference, a mere nothing, bagatelle, bauble, child's play, doit, fig, fillip, fribble, gewgaw, little, matter of indifference, non thing, nonsense, nothing, nuffin, occurrence of no importance, petty matter, picayune, pushpin, rush, straw, taradiddle, tarradiddle, throwaway, toy, trifle, trifling matter, trinket, trivialism, two and a plack2) Colloquial: detail, walk in the park3) American: hill of beans4) Jocular: fiddlestick6) Diplomatic term: matter of small weight7) Jargon: lead-pipe, chicken feed, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, lead-pipe cinch, pipe8) Makarov: non-thing -
6 ничтожный
1) General subject: Lilliputian, contemptible, crummy, demi semi, derisive, feeble, fiddling, futile, gewgaw, in a million, inconsiderable, insignificant, narrow souled, narrow-souled, naught, negligeable, negligible, paltry, penny ante, penny-ante, pettifogging, petty, picayunish, piddling, pigmy, piss ant, pistareen, pitiable, pitiful, poor, puisne, puny, pygmy, queachy (о человеке), scrub, scrubby, shabby, shagback, shrimpish, silly, sleazo, sleazy, sleezy, small, small beer, small fry, small time, small-beer, small-fry, squirt, tiny, twopenny halfpenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vain, nominal, itsy bitsy, low3) American: cockamamie, cockamamy, outside, picayune4) Bookish: exiguous5) Rare: sneaksby6) Religion: vile7) Law: aniens, anient, null, null and void (об аннулированном договоре и т.п.), void9) Child speech: tiny winy10) Diplomatic term: tinhorn11) Scornful: demi-semi, lamentable12) Jargon: crum, crumb, hill (row) of beans, one-horse, snide, two-bit, crumby, half-pint, jeasely, jeasly, shity13) Invective: mother fucking, mothering14) leg.N.P. null and void (law of contracts), void (as distinguished from "voidable"; law of contracts)16) Derogatory: small-time17) Taboo: crappy -
7 not worth a bean
разг.(not worth a bean (button, curse, damn, darn, dern, doit, dump, farthing, fig, groat, halfpenny, jigger, old song, pin, pinch of snuff, rap, row of beans, row of pins, rush, snap, straw или three straws; уст. not worth a mite; шотл. not worth a plack; амер. not worth a cent или red cent, a continental, a hill of beans или shucks; австрал. not worth a zac (Шестипенсовая монета - авт.)))никчёмный, никудышный; ничего не стоящий, бесполезный; ≈ гроша медного ( или ломаного) не стоит, выеденного яйца не стоитYou must not allow people to presume on your lack of dignity, Sally. A woman's reputation up here is not worth a straw if she permits any sort of familiarity. (K. S. Prichard, ‘The Roaring Nineties’, ch. 14) — Ты должна держать себя с бо/льшим достоинством. Репутация женщины здесь не стоит ломаного гроша, если она допускает подобные фамильярности.
As paper money was poured out by the Congress it fell rapidly in value: in 1779 one paper dollar was worth only two or three cents in specie. Attempts to stabilize it were futile; it slipped almost steadily downward into the abyss, until at length there was no term of contempt so espressive as "not worth a continental". (Ch. Beard and M. Beard, ‘The Rise of American Civilization’, ch. VI) — Конгресс выпускал множество бумажных денег, и они быстро обесценивались: в 1779 году один бумажный доллар стоил только два или три золотых цента. Все попытки стабилизировать доллар терпели неудачу. Доллар скатывался все ниже и ниже. Дело дошло до того, что не было более презрительного выражения, чем "не стоит и бумажного доллара".
So if you're planning to stay in Australia, and you're not worth a zac, you won't make any friends. (J. O'Grady, ‘Aussie English’) — Так вы решили остаться в Австралии. Человек вы никудышный, и друзей у вас не будет, не надейтесь.
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