can count on no hands

can count on no hands
 v. phr.β€” Β«The amount of business we’ve gotten from the World Soccer Cup you can count on no hands.…We have no business tied to that event at all.Β» β€”β€œIt seems we’ve heard that song before: San Jose loses soccer visitors to β€˜that city’” by Judy Semas Business Journal (Santa Clara, California) June 13, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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