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worth his crackers
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where did this come from, what does it mean
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I once heard that it's possibly nautical i.e. sailors were often given ships' biscuit as part of their rations, and these often looked like crackers.
It therefore implies that the man is well worth his rations, or has earned them for his hard work.
Colleagues of mine in the Army were often referred to as 'a waste of rations' i.e. for what they did they did not warrant their food.