אֵינוֹ שָׁוֶה פְּרוּטָה, לֹא שָׁוֶה גְּרוּשׁ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

to be valueless/not worth a farthing

הגדרה (אנגלית)

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)