not worth a plug nickel

adjective

Having no or almost no value; worthless.

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Meanings

adjective

alternative not worth a plugged nickel

  1. USidiomaticHaving no or almost no value; worthless.

    In the screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr., and David Rayfiel, Turner very early on stumbles upon the existence of a kind of super-C.I.A. within the C.I.A., after which his life is not worth a plug nickel.

    1975 Sep. 25, Vincent Canby, "Redford a CIA Eccentric in Three Days of Condor" (film review), New York Times, p. 60

    Synonyms: bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHaving no or almost no value; worthless.

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Also see
not worth a brass farthing
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Chicago

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