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English - Turkish
Definition of tinker's damn in English Turkish dictionary
- not to be worth a hill of beans/a toot/a damn/a tinker´s damn
- k. dili beş para bile etmemek
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English - English
Definition of tinker's damn in English English dictionary
- a worthless amount
- not give a tinker's damn
- To be uninterested in something
I don't give a tinker's damn about your opinions, I'm doing it my way.
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tinker's damn
Turkish pronunciation
tîngkırz dämSynonyms
tinker's cussPronunciation
/ˈtəɴɢkərz ˈdam/ /ˈtɪŋkɜrz ˈdæm/
Etymology
() A popular etymology is that tinkers used a small piece of dough or clay, a dam, to stop the flow of solder until it solidified. The dam was single-use, and was thrown away afterwards as useless. However, this is just polish added to an old phrase, as not worth a damn predates the use of tinker's damn. The reference to tinkers was added for emphasis and colour - tinkers were known for swearing, so a damn from a tinker was particularly worthless. Also, it was a way, as with "Fudge" or "Geez Louise" or a million other soft-core curses, to avoid saying the actual word "damn" while pronouncing the word "dam."Resimler
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