9 phrases found for the topic Usefulness
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Phrase: A necessary evil
Meaning: Something that you dislike, but that it seems necessary: Fines should not be a necessary evil in most cases. There should be other alternatives.
Date: 24-07-2015
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Phrase: Recharge your batteries
Meaning: Recover after resting, eating, drinking: We need to spend the night here to recharge our batteries.
Date: 20-04-2015
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Phrase: Come in handy (or useful)
Meaning: Be useful: This screwdriver may come in handy
Date: 09-03-2015
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Phrase: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Meaning: What you already have now is more valuable and safer than something of more value that you may not obtain.
Example:
If I were you, I would accept that offer. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Phrase: Be worth one's salt
Meaning: if someone is worth his or her salt, he or she is a good professional.
Examples:
A spy worth his or her salt would never reveal that he or she is a spy, would they?
If you are a programmer worth your salt, it should be easy for you to fix this.
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Phrase: It is no use/good crying over spilt milk
Meaning: Something that has been done cannot be undone, so it is not worth regretting it.
Example:
Yes, I know, but it is no use crying over spilt milk. Just forget about it. You will never get that back.
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Phrase: Like getting blood from/out of a stone
Meaning: Useless, impossible to get: Asking Margaret for money is like getting blood out of a stone. She's very mean.
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Phrase: Not to be worth the paper it is written (or printed) on
Meaning: That is, when something has no value at all, or it is useless.
Example:
This contract is not worth the paper it is printed on because it is illegal.
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Phrase: Useless as nipples on a breastplate (or as teats on a boar hog)
Meaning: Completely useless
Sent by Tony Western
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