dime's worth
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Derived from not worth a dime.
NounEdit
dime's worth (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) An insignificant amount
- Why is he here? Nothing will change. At best, he'll make a dime's worth of difference.
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1941, L.H. Robbins, The New York Times[1]:
- 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?