dime's worth

noun

An insignificant amount

“Why is he here? Nothing will change. At best, he'll make a dime's worth of difference.”

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Meanings

noundime's worth (uncountable)
  1. idiomaticuncountableAn insignificant amount

    Why is he here? Nothing will change. At best, he'll make a dime's worth of difference.

    1 more example

    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, L.H. Robbins, The New York Times

Origin

Derived from not worth a dime.

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APA

dime's worth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dime's%20worth

MLA

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Chicago

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