Not worth the paper it's written on

Definition

worth /wɜ:θ/ adj (usu used like a prep ) ၁။ be ~ sth တန္[ေသာ]။ Our house is worth about £ 60 000. ❍ I paid only $3 000 for this painting, but it's worth a lot more. ၂။ ႂကြယ္ဝ[ေသာ]။ ခ်မ္းသာ[ေသာ]။ He's worth about £10 million. ၃။ ~ sth/ doing sth ထိုက္[ေသာ]။ သင့္[ေသာ]။ အပ္[ေသာ]။ It's not worth the effort/ the trouble. ❍ The scheme is worth a try. ❍ This book is well worth reading. ❍ He felt that his life was no longer worth living. ❍ Don't bother washing your car every week— it's not worth it. ❍ It's an idea that's worth considering. See also WORTHWHILE n [U] ၁။ ~ of sth (အေရအတြက္ျပ နာမ္ေနာက္၌ သံုးသည္။ ) (က) အဖိုးေငြပမာဏ။ The thieves stole £5 000 worth of jewellery. (ခ) (အခ်ိန္တစ္ခုခုအထိသာ ခံမည့္) ပမာဏ။ …စာ။ two weeks' worth of groceries. ၂။ (က) တန္ဖိုး။ items of great/ little worth. (ခ) (လူ႕) အဖိုးတန္။ a man of great worth. ❏ for all one/ it is worth [ IDM ] အစြမ္းကုန္။ ေရကုန္ေရခန္း။ မီးကုန္ယမ္းကုန္။ It's a marvellous part, and she plays it for all it's worth. ❍ They're promoting their new course for all they're worth. ❏ for what it's worth [ IDM ] (အႀကံျပဳရာ၌ သံုးေသာစကား)။ ေတြးတတ္သေရြ႕ေတာ့။ So that's what I think, for what it's worth. ❏ not worth a damn, a straw, a red cent, a tinker's cuss, etc [ IDM ] ( infml ) အသံုးမက်။ အလကား။ Their promises are not worth a damn. ❏ not worth the paper it's written on [ IDM ] (ေလးစား လိုက္နာျခင္းမရိွ၍) သံုးမရေသာ (စာခ်ဳပ္၊ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ စသည္)။ ❏ worth every penny [ IDM ] ကုန္ရက်ဳိးနပ္သည္။ တန္ သည္။ The trip cost a lot but it was worth every penny. ❏ worthless adj ၁။ သံုးမရေသာ။ worthless old chairs ❍ worthless promises. ❍ INVALUABLE ၂။ အသံုးမက် ေသာ။ a worthless character. worthlessness n [U]: a sense of his own worthlessness. ❏ worth one's salt [ IDM ] အရည္အခ်င္းရိွသည္။ ေတာ္သည္။ Any teacher worth her salt knows that. ❏ worth one's/ its weight in gold [ IDM ] အလြန္အသံုးဝင္ သည္။ အဖိုးတန္သည္။ A good mechanic is worth his weight in gold. ❏ worth sb's while [ IDM ] အက်ဳိးရိွသည္။ အက်ဳိးနပ္သည္။ It would be (well) worth your while to come to the meeting. ❍ They promised to make it worth her while (ie pay her well) to take part.

Examples

1. How much do you reckon the house is worth?
2. [worth ten pounds/$100/a lot etc] : A Gucci watch worth £1
3. 000
4. I didn’t think the furniture would be worth anything.
5. [worth a fortune] : The building itself must be worth a fortune.
6. [be worth doing/having/seeing etc] : The book is definitely worth reading.
7. We believe that our freedom is worth fighting for.
8. [worth a try/visit/look] : Owen’s plan was risky
9. but it was worth a try.
10. [well worth] : The Museum of Fine Arts is well worth a visit.
11. [be worth the effort/time/trouble] : It’s a long way
12. and probably not worth the effort.
13. [it is worth doing something] : It’s worth talking to your financial adviser before making your final decision.
14. [be worth it] : It was hard work
15. but it was worth it in the end.
16. [be worth something/a lot/a great deal etc] : She knows that her loyalty is worth a great deal to Charles.
17. I’m afraid the government’s promises aren’t worth much.
18. She is now worth 20 million dollars.