For instance if someone is worth their weight in gold to you, then in a literal sense (assuming that person is 150 lbs.) their value would be 2,847,000 USD. (Because gold is worth about 1,300 USD per Troy ounce)
The new financial controller I hired cut down our expenses by 26%. He is definitely worth his weight in gold.
What?! 15 bucks for a drink? What, is beer here worth its weight in gold?!
From the 1971 song "Amos Moses", a phrase referring to a person that gorges on food. It literally means that one can eat the equivalent of their weight in food, and unless the person exercises vigorously, the chances are high that they're huge.
(There) lived a man named Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hanna, (and) they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries! Named him after a man of the cloth, Called him Amos Moses!" -Jerry Reed, "Amos Moses
when an article that was written as to be extremely insightful, groundbreaking, and mentions the word "killer app" in every other paragraph turns out to ultimately be 17 pages of shit.
Given how much paper weighs and how much 17 pages weighs, the equivalent amount of shit is pretty worthless hence, it's worth its weight in shit.
This 17 page article that used the word killer app fifteen times is worth its weight in shit.
a phrase you say to someone after you have outplayed them physically in some sport activity. it implies that the other person is weak, and needs to bulk up or toughen up
Playing Football,,,John hits Billy really hard, Billy falls over