Crumb : noun A crumb is a small parcel of pain, cake that falls when it is cut or when it is broken.
A little ; a small quantity.
Not losing a crumb of a show: not losing anything.
Small fragment: to put, to reduce someone to crumbs: to pieces.
Don't Worry About It: Don't Worry, Don't Worry, Don't Worry
Earn crumbs: very few.
Not (more) a crumb: nothing at all
Garbage collector: whiskers.
And crumbs! : And the rest !
To go to the crumbs: to vomit.
Breadcrumb: young, small, beginner.
The expression “not to worry (a crumb)”: Not to worry or worry; be carefree.
This phrase is simply a familiar ellipsis of don't worry.
But sometimes we also find a crumb attached to the expression. Why ?
If the crumb is, since the twelfth century, the diminutive of mie to designate first the tiny bits that fall from the bread when it is broken, then, in the XNUMXth century, by extension, small pieces of anything, the word also had the meaning of "a very little bit" , related to the average size of a true crumb.
With this addition the expression is to be understood as “not to worry, not even a little bit”.
– Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches known as Céline (1894-1961) “I’m bursting! I explode into a hundred thousand crumbs of grateful fury! I'm too brave for myself! I can't contain myself anymore! Open everything to me! Without further delay! In a burst! I burst into flames with frightening heroic impatience! I ate hell!” In Trivia for a massacre .
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “Open your eyes, good people, don’t miss a beat. It's not every day that you have a great writer in front of you. » in the novel Ask the Dust (ask the dust) (1939).