hill of beans
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Noun
edithill of beans (plural hills of beans)
- (informal, chiefly in the negative) Something of no importance.
- Synonym: row of pins
- 1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart):
- Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.