a dime's worth

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Definition of a dime's worth in English English dictionary

An insignificant amount

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.

Hyphenation

a dime's Worth

Turkish pronunciation

ı daymz wırth

Pronunciation

/ə ˈdīmz ˈwərᴛʜ/ /ə ˈdaɪmz ˈwɜrθ/

Etymology

() Derived from the idiom "not worth a dime".