to be valueless/not worth a farthing

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to be valueless/not worth a farthing

to be valueless/not worth a farthing

Worth nothing. Without value. ('Perutah' means a coin of very small value that was used in antiquity as well as in the early years of the state. 'Grosz' was a coin of small value in the pre-state era.)

("Anyone who robs his fellow of even a perutah, it is as if he takes his soul from him" - Bava Kama 119a; also: "This importance, which was marketable a few years ago, is now not worth even a single perutah" - Bialik, Aryeh Ba'al Guf, 12:56; also: "And in his town, the street-corner dwellers will gossip about him, that a signed contract... is not worth a perutah" - Agnon, Elu Va'Elu, Ma'alot U'Moradot, 126; also: "And they go around door to door: from house to house—a perutah, from threshold to threshold, worth a perutah" - H. Hazaz, Dorot HaRishonim, 68)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אֵינוֹ שָׁוֶה פְּרוּטָה, לֹא שָׁוֶה גְּרוּשׁ

Definition (Hebrew)

לֹא שָׁוֶה כְּלוּם. חָסֵר עֵרֶךְ (פְּרוּטָה מַשְׁמָע מַטְבֵּעַ בַּעַל עֵרֶךְ קָטָן בְּיוֹתֵר שֶׁהָיָה נָהוּג בְּעֵת הָעַתִּיקָה וְכֵן בִּשְׁנוֹתֶיהָ הָרִאשׁוֹנוֹת שֶׁל הַמְּדִינָה. גְּרוּשׁ הָיָה מַטְבֵּעַ בַּעַל עֵרֶךְ קָטָן בִּימֵי טְרוֹם הַמְּדִינָה).

("כָּל הַגּוֹזֵל אֶת חֲבֵרוֹ שָׁוֶה פְּרוּטָה כְּאִלּוּ נוֹטֵל אֶת נשמתו מִמֶּנּוּ"- בָּבָא קַמָּא קיט ע"א, וְכֵן:"שֶׁחֲשִׁיבוּת זוֹ,שֶׁהָיְתָה עוֹבֶרֶת לַסּוֹחֵר לִפְנַי שְׁנוֹת מִסְפָּר,אֵינָהּ שָׁוֶה כָּעֵת אֲפִלּוּ פְּרוּטָה אַחַת"-בְּיָאלִיק/ אַרְיֵה בַּעַל גּוּף, יב נוּ, וְכֵן:"וּבְעִירוֹ ישיחו בּוֹ יוֹשְׁבֵי קרנות כִּי שְׁטָר שנחתם...אֵינוֹ שָׁוֶה פְּרוּטָה"- עַגְנוֹן/ אֵלּוּ וְאֵלּוּ, מַעֲלוֹת ומורדות, 126, וְכֵן:"ומחזרים עַל הפתחים: מִבֵּית לְבֵית-פְּרוּטָה, ומאסקופה לאסקופה, שָׁוֶה פְּרוּטָה"- ח.הזז/ דורות הָרִאשׁוֹנִים, 68)

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