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phony as a three-dollar bill
vs
trumped-up
phony as a three-dollar bill
adj
Extremely phony; fake; dishonest; completely bogus.
trumped-up
adj
Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured.
How often have the words
phony as a three-dollar bill
and
trumped-up
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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