can count on no hands

can count on no hands
 v. phr.— «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.» —“It seems we’ve heard that song before: San Jose loses soccer visitors to ‘that city’” by Judy Semas Business Journal (Santa Clara, California) June 13, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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