What is "dime's worth"

Usage examples of "dime's worth".

Aunt Evy treated to a loaf of pumpernickel bread and a dime's worth of limburger cheese and they had sand­.

He hesitated, and when I flagged a Methodist and told her to bring it with an extra dime's worth of dumplings, which was an idea Wolfe had in- vented, he succumbed and dropped into a chair.

For one thing, Wolfe was passing up another chance to do a dime's worth of work himself, with Savarese right here and more than ready to talk, and for another, I was resisting a temptation.

Just thought I would tell you I think your mag is the best dime's worth I ever spent.

Because there's not a dime's worth of difference between you and him.

Far as I could ever see, it didn't make a dime's worth of difference which it was.

How he looked wouldn't matter a dime's worth when he got to the Whig meeting tonight.

It didn't lower her blood pressure much ('not a dime's worth,' she was fond of writing in her letters), but it did make her feel sick and weak.

And even if, by some miracle, he did manage to glide to a landing, no insurance salesman would give him a dime's worth over cov­.

Jounced around in their wake, people who had paid two dollars for a fishing license wasted their time trying to catch a dime's worth of fish.

So just about the time I got ready to start I'd have to drop everything and run to sell some redneck a dime's worth of nails or something, and Earl up there gobbling a sandwich and half way back already, like as not, and then I found that all the blanks were gone.