Benjamin Franklin

English thumb Etymology From the portrait of Benjamin Franklin featured on them. Noun en slang A United States one-hundred-dollar bill. en Ben Ben Franklin Benjamin Franklin en Sunny Mona Lisa Awakening New York, N.Y. w:Berkley Books 2006 202 https://archive.org/details/monalisaawakenin00sunn/page/202/mode/1up 0-425-21160-6 “Good enough for me. Take this.” I handed him another stack of Benjamin Franklins and whispered the name and address of a hotel in his ear. en Paul H. Boge The Cities of Fortune Kitchener, Ont. Castle Quay Books 2006 107 https://archive.org/details/citiesoffortune0000boge/page/107/mode/1up 1-897186-03-7 Ten thousand. That would be a good start. That would be all he’d need. He was about to toss the stack of Benjamin Franklins on the counter when he changed his mind. en anonymous Play Poker Like a Pigeon and Take the Money Home New York, N.Y. Lyle Stuart, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2007 157 https://archive.org/details/playpokerlikepig0000unse/page/157/mode/1up 978-0-8184-0718-5 I was twenty-three years old when I made my first significant poker win, a thousand bucks in a pot-limit game where I started with fifty dollars, and since I’d never had more than a hundred to call my own before, just looking at the stack of Benjamin Franklins on my bed gave me a euphoric dizzy feeling. en David Wambaugh The Last Call [Bloomington, Ind.] w:AuthorHouse [2012] 114 https://archive.org/details/lastcall0000davi/page/114/mode/1up 978-1-4772-6274-0 Nobody selling a car for cash demanded to see my driver’s license when I waved a stack of Benjamin Franklins under his nose. en Patrick J. Stroh Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win! Hoboken, N.J. w:Wiley 2014 151 https://archive.org/details/businessstrategy0000stro/page/151/mode/1up 978-1-118-87844-6 Throw a stack of Benjamin Franklins on the table (counterfeit bills are fine) and ask: “If you had unlimited resources to spend on fixing our businesses problems, what would you fix?” en w:Haywood Smith Queen Bee Goes Home Again New York, N.Y. w:St. Martin’s Press 2014 189 https://archive.org/details/queenbeegoeshome0000smit/page/189/mode/1up 978-1-250-00351-5 The envelope was half filled with gold coins, most marked “uncirculated” in clear, hinged plastic rolls, and at least a dozen in flat little presentation boxes marked “proof.” Plus a nice, fat stack of Benjamin Franklins still in their original bank wrapper. en Carolyn Mulford Show Me the Sinister Snowman Warrensburg, Mo. Cave Hollow Press 2017 220 https://archive.org/details/showmesinistersn0000mulf/page/220/mode/1up 978-0-9713497-9-7 I took note of a stack of Benjamin Franklins in Horse’s overnight bag and a top-of-the-line computer on his dresser. See also en dead president en George Washington, en Washington en Lincoln en Alexander Hamilton, en Hamilton en Jackson Further reading United States one-hundred-dollar bill en eponyms