Meaning of a Sentence
I'm confused with the word "worth" in this sentence: "But I don't trust you worth a damn". Is the word "worth" a noun or an adjective hete? It rather looks like a verb in this case as there are no auxiliary verb before "worth". Could you clarify a meaning of the sentence and the reason the word has been used here this way?

Thanks in advance.

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Meaning of a Sentence
I'm confused with the word "worth" in this sentence: "But I don't trust you worth a damn". Is the word "worth" a noun or an adjective hete? It rather looks like a verb in this case as there are no auxiliary verb before "worth". Could you clarify a meaning of the sentence and the reason the word has been used here this way?

Thanks in advance.

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So that sentence isn't grammatically correct, but it is how some people would speak in a real life casual conversation. It's a shortened version of "I don't trust that you are worth a damn." If someone is not "worth a damn" it means that they are worthless, useless, not worth anything.

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Daniel is spot on. Yeah, it means you are worthless, but the sentence doesn't look grammatically correct.

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