Bir nikel beş kuruş değerinde bozuk paradır.
- A nickel is a five-cent coin.
Hata yaptığım her sefer için bir nikelim olsa, daha ucuz hatalar yapardım.
- If I had a nickel for every time I made a mistake, I'd have made cheaper mistakes.
H. T. Webster's comic strip, The Timid Soul, in the Oakland Tribune of September 10, 1950 used the tendency to repeat worn phrases as the subject for the hero's good intentions. The following are recorded: . . . Don't take any wooden nickels.