what does "nickle-and-diming" mean?

Question

please explain it in simple words, my english is very limited.

Answer 1

Nickles and dimes are low-value American coins.

To "nickle and dime" means to annoy or exhaust by charging small fees, or by inference, to annoy with small ideas or petty complaints.

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Answer 2

"nickle and diming' means that you are spending money continuously in small increments here and there, and it is taking your money over and over again. And yet it never seems to get fixed. when one thing is payed something else breaks. A constant drain on your pocketbook. It the item is 'nickle and diming' you too much, sell it, trade it in, get rid of it and get one that works. Much less stress and perhaps a better deal in the long run.
Constant drain on the finances and the patience.

Answer 3

It means when you watch how much someone spends money very closely and make a big deal about small, unimportant expenses. For example, if your boss were to look at your expense reports and always comment on small stuff, you would say "My boss is alway nickle-and-diming me".

Answer 4

nickel= 5 cents ($ 0.05)
dime= 10 cents ($ 0.10)

Many small things add up to a big thing. I don't buy $800 TV's or $10,000 cars. It's too expensive. But, I might buy many, many small things that cost $1 or $3 (or a nickel or a dime). Maybe I spend $7,000 on small cheap $1 things. I am "nickle-and-diming myself to death."

Answer 5

Nickle and diming means that someone is charging you lots of extra small fees to get more money out of you.

Answer 6

In the south part of the USA nickel and dime is a term that is used when something is need of constant small repairs.
as the parts are not expensive to purchase yet they are a constant drain on financial resources.
This is where the phrase comes from that [Car or whatever] is going to nickel and dime me to the poor house.

Answer 7

An example: You go to the Midas Muffler shop and get there "29.95" muffler deal. You come back to get your care and look at the bill you expeted to be 29.95+tax and but it says 89.52 with a list that reads 4 nuts@ .95, 2 U bolts @ 4.20, Shop rags. 6.00, Disposal fee 5.00 ect until the bill ads up to 89.52. You have been "nickel and dimed" Watch out for these tactics, It happends all the time!

Answer 8

from a song in the late seventies "A penny for your thoughts a nickle for a kiss" Means to make the person that you are charging not notice how much it's really costing them because it's in small increments they wouldn't mind as much as if you tell them the full amount at one time. Like the is $15,000.00 But if you want fog lights its $5.00 more per month and if you want a 5 CD changer instead of the regular one its 2.50 more per month.

Answer 9

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what does "nickle-and-diming" mean?
please explain it in simple words, my english is very limited.

Answer 10

There is No big money in it, its simply small change nickels &
dimes.