nickel-and-dime
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It’s so refreshing to see hotels that don’t nickel-and-dime you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
But don’t nickel-and-dime your enjoyment of your life in order to punish yourself for financial decisions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
Many teams are trying to slow down Kansas City’s offense by playing zone defenses, but the tradeoff is watching Travis Kelce nickel-and-dime his way down the field.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2023
After years of allegedly running other nickel-and-dime scams, Santos appears to have concluded, for good reason, that the GOP donation pool is composed of easily shaken down marks.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023
Nothing—only the finest nickel-and-dime store in all the world!
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
My wife isn’t one to tolerate being nickel-and-dimed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
If you’re a working man or woman being nickel-and-dimed by unscrupulous employers, you’re on your own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
“There was all this technical stuff I knew nothing about, but I just kinda nickel-and-dimed my way through.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2019
Merchandise at Pride isn’t new, necessarily, but it is the byproduct of Pride growing into a more commercial space where being nickel-and-dimed is the norm rather than the exception.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2019
Tips such as avoiding airports and planning toll payments can help keep you from getting nickel-and-dimed with industry fees.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2017
Given your comment about your husband nickel-and-diming you, it does seem like you have different approaches to money.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
And why was the university nickel-and-diming us over the photos of my wife getting her diploma?
From Slate ● May 27, 2025
Yes the parks can be prohibitively pricy, and they have found numerous ways to ruin the magic with nickel-and-diming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
"There's a lot more nickel-and-diming than there used to be," said Bob Levinstein, CEO of Cruise Compete, a marketplace for cruise quotes, noting charges for room service and other amenities used to be free.
From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023
That’s because hotels and airlines, struggling to recoup their losses from the pandemic, are increasingly resorting to nickel-and-diming consumers with hidden charges, according to studies and travel experts.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Ickes took his revenge: he began a campaign of nickeling-and-diming his adversaries, refusing to authorize their requests for cellular phones and moving the high-living Morris into a cheaper hotel suite.
From Time Magazine Archive
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