not worth a curse
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Corrupted from earlier not worth a cress.
Adjective
[edit]not worth a curse (not comparable)
- Worthless.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:worthless
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 41:
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”