white chip

white chip (plural white chips)

1. (poker) A poker chip of low value.

   Antonym: blue chip

2. (figuratively) Anything of little significance or worth.

   Synonyms: red cent, small potatoes; see also Thesaurus:trifle, Thesaurus:modicum

   • 1942, Richard Gordon Lillard, Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1985, Joyce Brandon, The lady and the outlaw‎^[2]:

     Your life ain't worth a white chip as it is...

• pass up like a white chip