"row of pins" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the disposable rows of pins used in sewing.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia […] , volume 1, page 358:",
          "text": "“[…] they wouldn’t let us have even a row of pins without the money for ’em—no, not if we was to drop down dead for want of bread in their shops.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 109:",
          "text": "He knew that big nations did not care a row of pins for small nations, but only used them as pawns, and he knew that the role of a pawn in a game is, too often, to be taken.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963 October 14, John McFarland, Revenue Act of 1963: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-Eighth Congress, Fifth Session, on H.R. 8363 […] , page 608:",
          "text": "As far as the admissions tax is concerned, it doesn’t amount to a row of pins anyway.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An insignificant thing, a whit."
      ],
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          "insignificant"
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          "whit",
          "whit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated, chiefly in the negative) An insignificant thing, a whit."
      ],
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        "in the negative"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hill of beans"
        }
      ],
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        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "row of pins"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the disposable rows of pins used in sewing.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia […] , volume 1, page 358:",
          "text": "“[…] they wouldn’t let us have even a row of pins without the money for ’em—no, not if we was to drop down dead for want of bread in their shops.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 109:",
          "text": "He knew that big nations did not care a row of pins for small nations, but only used them as pawns, and he knew that the role of a pawn in a game is, too often, to be taken.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963 October 14, John McFarland, Revenue Act of 1963: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-Eighth Congress, Fifth Session, on H.R. 8363 […] , page 608:",
          "text": "As far as the admissions tax is concerned, it doesn’t amount to a row of pins anyway.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An insignificant thing, a whit."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, dated, chiefly in the negative) An insignificant thing, a whit."
      ],
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        "in the negative"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hill of beans"
        }
      ],
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  "word": "row of pins"
}