a hill of beans

noun phrase

chiefly US, informal

: something that has little or no value

—used in negative statements

These proposals don't amount to a hill of beans.

Examples of a hill of beans in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But all of that don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, to cite one of the more famous movies of the studio Ellison has just acquired. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026

None of this infringes on my rights or my children's rights to any degree that amounts to a hill of beans. — Gwen Faulkenberry, Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2026

But will Naked Gun amount to more than a hill of beans in the box-office landscape of 2025? — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2025

In the complex play of factors behind Napoleon’s rise and fall, the judicial assassination of a French aristocrat might not have amounted to more than a hill of beans. — Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2020

Rhymes for a hill of beans

• amphetamines
• catecholamines
• monoamines
• nitrosamines
• pyrimidines
• achenes
• alkenes
• amines
• benzenes
• canteens
• convenes
• cosines