nickel and dime English

Meaning nickel and dime meaning

What does nickel and dime mean?

nickel and dime adjective

— (US, idiomatic, colloquial) Small time; operating on a small scale; involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap.

nickel and dime verb

— (US, idiomatic, colloquial) To charge, or be charged, several unexpected small amounts of money, often in the form of fees, taxes, or related expenses to a venture, which when taken as a whole add up to a significant unexpected cost.

— (US, idiomatic, colloquial, figuratively) To wear down in small increments; to quibble or obsess endlessly with (someone) over trifles.

nickel and dime noun

— (US, slang) Fifteen years.