not worth a brass farthing

Meaning: (idiomatic)Worthnothingornext to nothing.1915,Sax Rohmer, chapter 24, inThe Yellow Claw:One's own private knowledge of a man's character isnot worth a brass farthingas legal evidence.2005, Jeremy Page, "Russia is now ripe for freedom revolution, warns Solzhenitsyn,"timesonline.com(UK), 7 Jun. (retrieved 29 Sep. 2008),Democracy isnot worth a brass farthingif it is being installed by bayonets.

Examples:

EN: whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. In all forms of the perversions of language there is a mirror reflection of this in the microcosm of the psyche.
ES: Tenemos el trabajo de ocho horas, tenemos la casa, los niños, las cuentas, la televisión, las aficiones, y las diligencias que hacemos cada día, y finalmente comenzamos a creer que eso es todo lo que somos,

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