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red cent

NOUN
insignificant value
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Or she could give you a spikey response: “How ungrateful you are. Fine, don’t expect a red cent from me.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

“Yeah, it took off on its own. Like, there was not one red cent behind it. No marketing, no nothing,” said Brown.

From Fox News Nov. 1, 2019

They haven’t straight-out asked me yet, but I am not giving either of them a red cent after that brunch.

From Slate May 9, 2019

The highly unusual suit does not name the city of Seattle or the City Council as defendants, pointedly stating that Officers Scott Miller and Michael Spaulding “do not want one red cent of public money.”

From Seattle Times Aug. 22, 2017

Which, by the way, Mother’s group has never raised one red cent for me, to help put in upstairs plumbing at the Equatorial, for example.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver



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