white chip

white chip (plural white chips)

1. A poker chip of low value.
2. (figuratively) Anything of little significance or worth.
   • 1942, Richard Gordon Lillard, Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada‎:

     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:

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

• (something of little worth): red cent, small potatoes, see also Thesaurus:trifle, Thesaurus:modicum

• pass up like a white chip

• blue chip