white chip
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
white chip (plural white chips)
- A poker chip of low value.
- (figuratively) Anything of little significance or worth.
- 1942, Richard Gordon Lillard, Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada[1]:
- 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.
- 1985, Joyce Brandon, The lady and the outlaw[2]:
- Your life ain't worth a white chip as it is...
Synonyms[edit]
- (something of little worth): red cent, small potatoes, see also Thesaurus:trifle, Thesaurus:modicum