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dime's worth en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Derived from not worth a dime.

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, uncountable) 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? 1941, L.H. Robbins, The New York Times: