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not worth the candle

adj

Etymology

Calque of French le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle.

  1. calqued from le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle

Definitions

  1. Not worth the cost or trouble.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for not worth the candle. 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