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Meaning of tinker's damn | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

An insignificant or worthless amount or thing.

Examples

“[…] is not worth (to use expression excited by honest indignation) a tinker's damn : and if Mrs. Chatterly has no other salvo for her precious reputation. […]”
“So now, stimulated by some further experience with that world which does not care a tinker’s damn whether a verb agrees with its subject in number and person or not, she permitted the taxicab to jounce her smile out of all semblance to anything calmly superior and into a very unschoolmarmish grin.”
“[…] and I wouldn't sell you a tinker's damn.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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