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hill of beans

noun as in red cent

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Tory chair Richard Holden said they did not "amount to a hill of beans".

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Marie-Laure and Werner are little people whose problems, when romanticized and cliffhanger-ized, amount to more than a hill of beans.

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Moral victories don’t amount to a hill of beans in the NFL, but players see the upcoming schedule starting with the Bears and know this is the time to stack wins.

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“It’s not worth a hill of beans,” said Robinson, the Hall of Fame’s first Black inductee.

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“It won’t amount to a hill of beans for the fifth-largest economy in the world,” says finance department spokesman H.D.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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