row of pins
nounEtymology
From the disposable rows of pins used in sewing.
Definitions
An insignificant thing, a whit.
- “[…] they wouldn’t let us have even a row of pins without the money for ’em—no, not if we was to drop down dead for want of bread in their shops.”
- He knew that big nations did not care a row of pins for small nations, but only used them as pawns, and he knew that the role of a pawn in a game is, too often, to be taken.
- As far as the admissions tax is concerned, it doesn’t amount to a row of pins anyway.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for row of pins. 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