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for toffee

for toffee prepositional phrase: at all, especially of a (completely lacking) skill or ability.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (UK, emphatic, idiomatic, intensifier) At all, especially of a (completely lacking) skill or ability.
    • I can't swim for toffee.
    • This book was always going to be on the cards. As her work testifies, she [Tracey Emin] may not be able to spell for toffee but words are very important to her.2006 October 7, Nicholas Lezard, “In bed with Tracey Emin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Synonyms of for toffee

Questions about for toffee

What does for toffee mean?
For toffee means at all, especially of a (completely lacking) skill or ability.
What part of speech is for toffee?
For toffee is a prepositional phrase.

Words near for toffee in the dictionary

  1. for the worse
  2. for this once
  3. for thy
  4. for time
  5. for to
  6. for toffee
  7. for two pins
  8. for very shame's sake
  9. for Wales
  10. for want of
  11. for weal or woe

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