plug nickel

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A nearly worthless amount, referring to a nickel (US five-cent coin) with a hole in it where a plug has been removed

There's no additional money for saving the mural, he said. I have no intention of spending another plug nickel on it..

not worth a plug nickel
Having 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.

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