white chip
noun1
Card games, Poker A poker chip of low value.
2
Figuratively Anything of little significance or worth.
- 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.1942, Richard Gordon Lillard, Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada:
- Your life ain't worth a white chip as it is...1985, Joyce Brandon, The lady and the outlaw:
- Derived terms
- pass up like a white chip