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verb (nickel and dim, ed)
- (transitive, US) To quibble with (someone) over trifling amounts of money.
- I got nickel and dimed to death by the phone company's extra charges.
- (transitive, figurative) To quibble or obsess endlessly with (someone) over trifles.
- 1998, Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (Simon & Schuster, p. 358)
- : The business people began to nickel-and-dime him, no water cooler in the production office, that sort of thing.
adjective
- (context, US, idiom, colloquial) Involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap; small-time.
- I bought my new ride from some used-car salesman.
Etymology: From the names of two US coins of small value.
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