nickel and dime
Small time; operating on a small scale; involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap.
Near-synonyms: two-bit, ten-cent
noun
A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
A coin worth 5 cents.
That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!
Five dollars.
Five hundred dollars.
Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
adj
Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.
Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.
verb
To plate with nickel.
To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.
The 422d Bombardment Squadron extended the scope of its operations considerably in April and "attacked" Norwegian targets with the leaflet bomb. The number of cities nickeled per mission also increased until it was common for fifteen to twenty-five to be scheduled as targets for a five-plane mission.
We flew numerous nickeling missions over the population centers of Southern France, dropping thousands of pounds of leaflets.