Be not much cop British informal slang
If you say that something or someone is not much cop, you mean that they are not of high quality, not useful or not very good.
I am not much cop at swimming.
This sequel of the book is not much cop.
Being not much cop as a flight attendant, so she ditched this job.
To be much less good than someone or something
The verb " be" must be conjugated according to its tense.
Cop was a slang term for "value" or "use" in the early twentieth century.
It was often said by a photographer when he would like small children to look at the camera and smile before he took a photo.
When the photographer said “watch the birdie”, all of us looked at the camera and smiled.