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for the birds

adj
/fə ðə ˈbɜːdz/UK/fəɹ ðə ˈbɜɹdz/US

Etymology

Originally United States Army slang, said to be from birds pecking at cattle and horse dung.

Definitions

  1. Not deserving serious consideration

    Not deserving serious consideration; unimportant; useless, worthless.

    • Burly Arthur [Godfrey] works hard. Six days a week, 52 weeks a year, he "yaps at a mike" from 6 to 7:45 a.m. over Manhattan's WABC. […] Says he: "This gettin' up at 5 o'clock is something for the birds."

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for for the birds. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA