(slang, chiefly in the negative) An insignificant value or amount.
Synonyms:hill of beans, row of pins; see also Thesaurus:nothing
1981 December 12, Scott Tucker, “Bring On The Cannon”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 5:
I left home and school at 16, and worked as a janitor, a printer, a salesperson, a busboy, and hustled briefly when I was 19 to make ends meet. I live with a lover now who is a well paid academic, but I make beans as a writer.
1999, Ozzie Jurock, Forget about… “Location, Location, Location!”: The Definitive Real Estate Investor Guide for the New Millennium, →ISBN, page 159: