| 单词 | wooden nickel |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswooden nickel wooden nickel n. U.S. slang a worthless or counterfeit coin; chiefly in figurative phrase to take a wooden nickel and variants, to be swindled or fooled. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > false coin > [noun] > a false coin bad pennyc1400 countera1529 slip1592 black dog1665 swimmer1699 Brummagem1838 sinker1839 smasher1851 wrong 'un1899 wooden nickel1927 wrongo1937 1927 Amer. Speech 3 132 [College slang.] Not to ‘take any wooden nickels’, in other words, to be alert. 1937 L. Hellman Diary 23 Oct. in Unfinished Woman (1969) viii. 100 Luis and I got to Madrid. He said I was not to take any wooden nickels. 1964 in C. Hamblett & J. Deverson Generation X 90 Then one night I met Johnny, one of the biggest sharks in the Mayfair aquarium, and that was the end of that. Nobody ever sold Johnny a wooden nickel. 1971 ‘M. Torrie’ Bismarck Herrings ii. 29 Having advised her..not to accept any wooden nickels, [he] drove back. 1971 R. Dentry Encounter at Kharmel iii. 58 There hadn't been a tribal rising worth a wooden nickel since the Partition troubles died down. < as lemmas |
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