They're not much cop when they can open their legs like that.

I'm meant to be well now and it's not much cop.'

Used with a negative to mean of little value, as in 'That's not much cop'.

And if kids' films don't give you nightmares, they're not much cop.

Not much cop, in other words; whether it mandates or makes suggestions:

Don't get Civilization 5 though, it's not much cop.

Not much cop as a chancellor of the exchequer and less so as a scientist.

"The gun's not much cop for shooting," he said, "but it makes a ducky little bomb."

If he's a skilled boardroom apparatchik, they say he's not much cop as a coach.

That's not much cop is it?

Not much cop considering that the game requires a hefty one hundred of the little blighters to be meandering about at once!

I'm not much cop with 'andguns, but once I see the whites of their eyes they'll get a nasty surprise.'

'I'm not much cop at astronomy!

"Eddie's not much cop."

If they are being "undermined and largely ignored" then they are not much cop as "leaders" then are they?

Having lived in Kraow and been around Poland I have slight reservations about the Polish techno or electronic music scene; its not much cop.

How would we fare if we posted a blog on classical music site along lines of "J.S. Bach... not much cop really?"

You are using your limited experience of many many years ago to imply that probation now is not much cop and that probation officers "are simply not that good at getting the balance right."

Now Theo, who may be a dab hand in the waving of wands area, is not much cop at the filing-things-away-neatly department, and he's left his Book of Really Powerful Spells lying round in his laboratory.