nickel-and-dime 的 2 个定义
- of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
nick·el-and-dimed or nick·eled-and-dimed,nick·el-and-dim·ing or nick·el·ing-and-dim·ing.
- 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.
- to hinder, annoy, or harass with trivialities or nonessentials: to be nickeled-and-dimed by petty criticisms.
nickel-and-dime 近义词
等同于 petty
nickel-and-dime 的近义词 38 个
- frivolous
- lesser
- minor
- narrow-minded
- base
- inessential
- inferior
- junior
- light
- little
- lower
- peanut
- scratch
- secondary
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- subordinate
- trifling
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- inconsequent
- inconsiderable
- irrelevant
- measly
- negligible
- niggling
- paltry
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- shabby
- small-minded
- two-bit
- unimportant
nickel-and-dime 的反义词 17 个
等同于 inconsiderable
nickel-and-dime 的近义词 39 个
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- niggling
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- peanut
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
更多nickel-and-dime例句
- As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
- As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
- I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.
- Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
- Antoine himself had recently been arrested on a six-year-old warrant for a dime bag of weed.
- She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
- No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
- Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
- They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
- He walked over to the table and mixed two tumblers of whiskey-and-soda, wondering why he had not thought of it before.