nickel-and-dime / ˈnɪk əl ənˈdaɪm /

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nickel-and-dime2 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
v. 有主动词 verb

nick·el-and-dimed or nick·eled-and-dimed,nick·el-and-dim·ing or nick·el·ing-and-dim·ing.

  1. to expose to financial hardship or bankruptcy by the accumulation of small expenses, bills, etc.: We're being nickel-and-dimed to death by these small weekly expenses.
  2. to hinder, annoy, or harass with trivialities or nonessentials: to be nickeled-and-dimed by petty criticisms.

nickel-and-dime 近义词

nickel-and-dime

等同于 petty

nickel-and-dime

等同于 inconsiderable

更多nickel-and-dime例句

  1. As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
  2. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  3. I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.
  4. Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
  5. Antoine himself had recently been arrested on a six-year-old warrant for a dime bag of weed.
  6. She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
  7. No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
  8. Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
  9. They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
  10. He walked over to the table and mixed two tumblers of whiskey-and-soda, wondering why he had not thought of it before.