nickel-and-dime
Example Sentences
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“This is meant to nickel-and-dime, audit and harass America’s small businesses and families, who they know cannot afford the legal fees to fight this army,” Malliotakis said.
From Seattle Times
Maybe they result in some nickel-and-dime gains for businesses from people who throw in the towel and pay whatever’s being demanded.
From Los Angeles Times
Since deregulation in the 1980s, the entire banking industry has grown more reliant on reaching into people’s pockets with nickel-and-dime fees, as opposed to its traditional focus on loan interest.
From Los Angeles Times
It does also seem like a way to further nickel-and-dime students through a kind of “food DRM.”
From The Verge
If I want a book, I’m not going to nickel-and-dime a brick-and-mortar shop, especially when so many of them are struggling.
From Washington Post
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