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for beans en · ADV

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Meanings

  1. (colloquial, humorous, idiomatic, not-comparable) Synonym of at all.
    • Then he'd go and do some piss-ass thing that didn't count for beans and blow his horn. 1998, Fern Michaels, Vegas Sunrise, page 279:
    • Senator: Lie to me. Foreman: Okay. It'll, uh, feel like a gentle massage. Senator: House is a lousy teacher. You can't lie for beans. 2005 April 12, “Role Model” (26:50 from the start), in House, M.D., season 1, episode 17, spoken by Senator Gary Wright (Joe Morton):

Synonyms

at all