wooden nickel

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wooden token that is manufactured and distributed by a particular business as an advertising gimmick or which can be exchanged for goods, many of which have now become collector's items.
    — Your Rivermont wooden nickel has tremendous purchasing power! Every customer on our mailing list has received a Rivermont wooden nickel.
  2. The smallest amount of money imaginable. US
    — His patients, on the other hand, were precisely such people as recognized that without self-understanding, without direction, without health of the inner as of the outer man, life was not worth a wooden nickel.
  3. A worthless replica of a coin, usually intended to defraud.
    — Don't take any wooden nickels warned innocents going abroad to steer clear of con artists.
  4. Something that purports to be something other than it actually is, especially that purports to be more valuable than it actually is. figuratively
    — Another wooden nickel would be a husband returning totally on his terms, where his terms are that you do not deal with the relationship.

词形变化

wooden nickels plural
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