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not worth a curse
vs
zilch
not worth a curse
adj
Worthless.
zilch
adj
No, zero, non-existent.
noun
Nothing, zero.
verb
To cause to score nothing, to thoroughly defeat.
How often have the words
not worth a curse
and
zilch
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)