"not worth a brass farthing" meaning in English

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        "(idiomatic) Worth nothing or next to nothing."
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          "sense": "worth nothing",
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          "note": "не стоить ломаного гроша (ne stoitʹ lomanovo groša, literally “to be not worth a broken half-copeck”)",
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