brass farthing
noun1
Idiomatic Something worthless or of small value; a whit or jot.
- The man, as a matter of fact, under no circumstances, ever cared a brass farthing for what I or anybody else in his ship thought.1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, “Rulers of East and West”, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC, page 148:
- Derived terms
- not worth a brass farthing