not worth a plug nickel

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.

See Also: plug nickel, plugged nickel

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