英语词汇phony as a three-dollar bill的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	phony as a three-dollar bill
词源	phony as a three-dollar bill. Very false, far from genuine, there never having been a U.S. three-dollar bill. A humorous exaggeration of this (heard in the movie The Eiger Sanction, 1970) is “He looks like he could change a nine-dollar bill in threes.”
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