Dime
Dime noun - A very small sum of money.
Nickel
Nickel noun - A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite.
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Nearby Words: nickeling, nickeled
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Actually, for your money, starting at a nickel or a dime in the 1930s, by the 1960s it was possibly 50c, and as late as the 1970s to early 1980s you might get into a movie for $2 - you got
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Path of Exile parodies the concept of Pay-to-Win with their 2014 April Fool's Gag, in which they decide to "nickel and dime" the players for victory.
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Bribing Your Way to Victory: On the first day of April 2014, Grinding Gear Games decided to "nickel and dime" players into purchasing "wins".
Source: Video Game / Path of Exile
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