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词汇 not have a bean
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Idiom
not have a bean(not) have a bean
British & Australian to have no money.
Most people in the area are unemployed and don't have a bean to spend.
idiomnot have a beanold-fashioned to have no money:It's always the same, when you're successful people give you everything. When you haven't got a bean, they won't give you anything.

not have a bean

To have very little or no money; to be very poor. He didn't have a bean during college, and he's been something of a penny-pincher ever since.

not have a bean

Be destitute or penniless, as in He doesn't have a bean, but she's set on marrying him. Bean has been a slang term for a guinea or a sovereign coin since the early 1800s. The precise expression was first recorded in 1928.

not have a bean

BRITISH, OLD-FASHIONED
If you do not have a bean, you have no money. Note: In the following expressions, `bean' means money. It's quite incredible to think that he now hasn't got a bean. When we married we hadn't a bean so we bought all our furniture second-hand.

not have a bean

be penniless. informal
Bean was an early 19th-century slang term for a golden guinea or sovereign. In the sense of ‘a coin’, it now survives only in this phrase.
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