"hill of beans" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-hill of beans.ogg Forms: hills of beans [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|hills of beans|head=hill of beans}} hill of beans (plural hills of beans)
  1. (informal, chiefly in the negative) Something of no importance. Tags: informal Synonyms: row of pins, ;, jack, jack shit, jack squat, squat, nothing

Inflected forms

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