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单词 nickel-and-dime
释义 nickel-and-dime
 /nik"euhl euhn duym"/, adj., v., nickel-and-dimed or nickeled-and-dimed, nickel-and-diming or nickeling-and-diming. Informal.
  adj.  
  1. of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
  v.t.  
  2. to expose to financial hardship or bankruptcy by the accumulation of small expenses, bills, etc.: We're being nickel-and-dimed to death by these small weekly expenses.
  3. to hinder, annoy, or harass with trivialities or nonessentials: to be nickeled-and-dimed by petty criticisms.
 [1965-70]
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