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Idiom not have a bean(not) have a bean British & Australian to have no money.Most people in the area are unemployed and don't have a bean to spend.
idiomnot have a beanold-fashioned to have no money:It's always the same, when you're successful people give you everything. When you haven't got a bean, they won't give you anything.
not have a beanTo have very little or no money; to be very poor. He didn't have a bean during college, and he's been something of a penny-pincher ever since. not have a beanBe destitute or penniless, as in He doesn't have a bean, but she's set on marrying him. Bean has been a slang term for a guinea or a sovereign coin since the early 1800s. The precise expression was first recorded in 1928. not have a bean BRITISH, OLD-FASHIONEDIf you do not have a bean, you have no money. Note: In the following expressions, `bean' means money. It's quite incredible to think that he now hasn't got a bean. When we married we hadn't a bean so we bought all our furniture second-hand. not have a bean be penniless. informal Bean was an early 19th-century slang term for a golden guinea or sovereign. In the sense of ‘a coin’, it now survives only in this phrase. |