ham sandwiches

Noun

ham sandwich (usually countable, plural ham sandwiches)

1. (countable, rare, uncountable, usually) A sandwich made with ham.
   • Muttsen looked at Eva and Eva looked at Muttsen—and Eva did not cry out, Eva slept gently—Eva ate a little sausage—a piece of ham sandwich, for her supper—Eva ate it all up; […]1919, H. von Hug-Hellmuth, translated by James J[ackson] Putnam and Mabel Stevens, A Study of the Mental Life of the Child (Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series; 29), Washington, D.C.: Nervous...
2. (US, figuratively, usually) Something utterly commonplace, of modest value.
   • but did you ever hear of a young man, who becomes a millionaire in the approved style, starting life on a farm, studying by the light of a tallow dip, and coming to the city with forty-five cents and a ham sandwich1900, Charles A. Conant, “The Financial Future of the United States”, in The Bankers magazine, volume 61, page 603
3. (slang, usually, vulgar) A vulva.