"sleeves from one's vest" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1980, Alvin W. Cohn, Benjamin Ward, Improving Management in Criminal Justice, page 79",
          "text": "when a prosecutor dismisses some of the charges in a multi-count indictment, he is giving the defendant the sleeves from his vest",
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          "ref": "2003, Ronald Reagan, Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Graebner Anderson, Martin Anderson, Reagan: A Life in Letters, page xii",
          "text": "\"Mr. President,\" I said, \"We don't have anything to deploy so you are giving them the sleeves from your vest.",
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          "ref": "2006, Richard Sonnenfeldt, Witness to Nuremberg: The Chief American Interpreter at the War Crimes Trials, page 170",
          "text": "Of someone stingy he would say, \"This guy wouldn't give you the sleeves from his vest.\"",
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        "Something non-existent; something of no value or cost."
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        "(idiomatic) Something non-existent; something of no value or cost."
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