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nickel-and-dime
adjective
small-time, operating on a small scale US, 1941- This is the big time, Ira baby, not like those nickel-and-dime epics you made back in the old days. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 113, 1964
- But the lemonade syndicate, like copping milk bottles, was nickel and dime. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 75, 1967
- Just the fact that we have over fifteen grand put up shows we wain’t some nickel and dime motherfuckers out here trying to get fix money. — Donald Goines, El Dorado Red, p. 90, 1974
- That trio and the woman played every nickel-and-dime base camp, every falling-down mess hall and sleazy, scruffy Enlisted Men’s Club south of the 17th Parallel[.] — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 11, 1986
- You know what our big crime is? We’re nickel-and-dime guys. We’re small-time hustlers. They got us because we’re hustling nickels and dimes. — Tin Men, 1987
- Rocco saw a hesitant curl coming into his brow and sensed that the guy knew something was up other than the usual nickel-and-dime bullshit. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 513, 1992
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