a poor thing but mine own
a poor thing but mine own
It may not be much, but it belongs to me. The phrase misquotes Touchstone’s description of Audrey in Shakespeare’s As You Like It (5.4): “An ill-favour’d thing, sir, but mine own.” It has been a cliché since the mid-nineteenth century.
See also: but, mine, own, poor, thing
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- rose by any other name, a
- my kingdom for a horse
- (one's) cake is dough
- dough
- here's the rub
- that's the rub
- there is/lies the rub
- there(in) lies the rub
- therein
- there's the rub