wooden nickel
English
Noun
wooden nickel (plural wooden nickels)
- (US) The smallest amount of money imaginable.
- 2015, Robert Asprin, ‎Linda Evans, Tales of the Time Scouts
- The rest of the report was nothing more than innuendo and slander, none of it provable and every word of it calculated to wreck any chance he had at conning a single tourist watching that broadcast out of so much as a wooden nickel.
- 2015, Robert Asprin, ‎Linda Evans, Tales of the Time Scouts
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