white chip

plural white chips

1. card gamesA poker chip of low value.

   Antonyms: blue chip

2. figurativelyAnything of little significance or worth.

   Your life ain't worth a white chip as it is...

   1985, Joyce Brandon, The lady and the outlaw

   1 more example

   he refused an interim appointment as United States senator — Senator Nixon had died in office — because he did not want to be “just a white chip — a nobody – in Washington.

   1942, Richard Gordon Lillard, Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada

   Synonyms: red cent, small potatoes, bagatelle, bag of shells, bric-a-brac, dicky, dicky-bird, fico