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three skips of a louse en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (archaic, idiomatic, plural, plural-only) The worth of some trifling or insignificant matter; a whit or jot of value.
    • ’Tis not that I value the money three skips of a louse: But the thing I stand upon is the credit of the house. 1719, Jonathan Swift, Mrs Frances Haris's Petition: