phony as a three-dollar bill
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
7
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Though the film has some handsome, carefully staged action sequences, its machismo seems as phony as a three‐dollar bill."
- "But this chart, originally created by the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, is as phony as a three-dollar bill. Our friends at PolitiFact did a pretty thorough takedown of it in May, giving it their worst rating: “pants on fire.”"
- ""You know, Mr. Sunshine, your laid-back, look-at-the-bright-side, the-glass-is-half-full malarkey is starting to come across as very condescending, especially since I know that your life-is-just-a-bowl-of-cherries spiel is as phony as a three-dollar bill.""