like loose change

[Beverly Flanigan]

easily picked up?  the walking style idea doesn't make sense to me.

At 03:35 AM 10/11/2004, you wrote:
> From http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/nyregion/10montclair.html:
>
>"People think of Montclair as a picture-perfect, 'Brady Bunch'-type
>setting," said Ricky Moore, a 42-year-old street cleaner, who was
>sweeping up cigarette butts from the sidewalks of the town's grittier
>side on Saturday. "But this neighborhood is ghetto. You got
>14-year-old girls walking around here in little miniskirts like loose
>change."
>
>I'm reading it as "walking around in little miniskirts like it's
>nothing."  Has anyone seen this before?  I can fathom "like loose
>change" in a context of not being parsimonious with a resource that
>others may value highly, or of being careless, but I'd never think it
>could be so elliptical as this.  At first I thought it was modifying
>their miniskirts, then the girls themselves, but the only way I can
>make sense of it is to attach it to their walking.
>
>"While the hapless Colorado Rockies lost games like loose change, the
>Marlins rarely surrendered without a fight"
>http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/1993-07-21/metro2.html