row of pins
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row of pins
Where it comes from
From the disposable rows of pins used in sewing.
noun
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An insignificant thing, a whit.
“[…] 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.”
Similar: hill of beans
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title = {row of pins},
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