dime's worth

noun

noun

Etymology Derived from not worth a dime.

Idiomatic An insignificant amount

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

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