don't take any wooden nickels

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Phrase

don't take any wooden nickels

  1. (US, dated) One should not permit oneself to be cheated or duped; one should not be naive.
    • 1914, Puck, volume 76, page 21:
      HELMER: What the hell, Nora? NORA: So long, Kid, don't take any wooden nickels!
    • 1917, William Ely Hill, Among Us Mortals: Pictures and Legends by W.E. Hill:
      Well, I only meant to write a line and I've written pages! Well, don't take any wooden nickels.
    • 1938, "Macy's College Shop" , New York Times, 14 Aug, p. 19:
      For conversation pieces . . . the whacky necklace called "Don't take any wooden nickels!" at $1.83 (designed by Martha Sleeper).
    • 1951 Jan, “Folklore in the News: Cliché Strip”, in Western Folklore, volume 10, number 1, page 84:
      H. T. Webster's comic strip, "The Timid Soul," in the Oakland Tribune of September 10, 1950 used the tendency to repeat worn phrases as the subject for the hero's good intentions. The following are recorded: . . . Don't take any wooden nickels.
    • 2000, Mark O. Everett (lyrics and music), “Wooden Nickels”, in Daisies of the Galaxy, performed by Eels:
      Don't take any wooden nickels
      When you sell your soul
      A devil of a time awaits you
      When the party's over
      You're on your own.

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