expendable vs not worth a Continental

expendable

adj
  • Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed. 

  • Designed for a single use; not reusable. 

  • Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal. 

  • Able to be expended; not inexhaustible. 

noun
  • An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural. 

not worth a Continental

adj
  • worthless, lacking in value, especially due to economic inflation. 

How often have the words expendable and not worth a Continental occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )