Meaning of straw | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
   countable
2. A dried stalk of a cereal plant
3. A surname transferred from the nickname.
4. Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
   uncountable
5. Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions
6. A drinking straw.
   countable
7. A drinking straw
8. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
   countable, uncommon, uncountable
9. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw
10. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
11. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing
12. A straw owner.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“to not care a straw”

to not care at all

“‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw, Nor all thine arrows to boot; If I get a knop upon thy bare scop, Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’”

“He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.”

“To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw.”

“The Bromfield Street offices were housed in a dilapidated but heavily-insured building, owned by a straw for a wealthy downtown real estate developer, surrounded by expensive new commercial developments, and in a city renowned for arson-for-profit.”

CEFR level