Idiom
dime's worth
Meaning
An insignificant amount
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“There is not a dime's worth of difference between these two phones.”
“The two candidates have similar plans, and voters feel there is not a dime's worth of difference between them.”
“Despite the heated rhetoric during the debate, the seasoned observer noted that neither policy proposal offered a dime's worth of real change for the struggling economy.”
Examples
simple
“There is not a dime's worth of difference between these two phones.”
contextual
“The two candidates have similar plans, and voters feel there is not a dime's worth of difference between them.”
complex
“Despite the heated rhetoric during the debate, the seasoned observer noted that neither policy proposal offered a dime's worth of real change for the struggling economy.”
Origin
Derived from not worth a dime.
Key words
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