disasters
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The price of their shares was down to $5 and such a split would have reduced their stock certificates to shinplasters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mexico, like Europe after the War, was going to have to do business with shinplasters.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it looked so much like the "shinplasters" we are forced to use, that no wonder they made the mistake.
From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Dawson, Sarah Morgan
Soul, brains,—a man, wifeless, homeless, nationless, hawked, flung from trader to trader for a handful of dirty shinplasters.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various
Twenty-five cent and one cent shinplasters were brought into camp and laughed at by men who were afterward glad to get shinplasters from another manufactory.
From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.
