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dime's worth

noun

Etymology

Derived from not worth a dime.

Definitions

  1. An insignificant amount

    • Why is he here? Nothing will change. At best, he'll make a dime's worth of difference.
    • But why, he asks, should a similarly rapt and adoring crowd bank up before a lighted wall niche containing nothing but a dime's worth of daffodils and a couple of sprays of forsythia in a blue dish?

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