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nickel-and-diming
Variant of nickel-and-dime
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adjective
- costing or spending little; cheap
- of little value or importance; minor; petty
transitive verb nickel- (or nickeled-)and-dimed, nickel- (or nickeling-)and-diming
- to spend very little on
- to weaken, erode, destroy, etc. as by the repeated expenditure of small sums or repeated niggling actions
intransitive verb
to spend very little
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