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A Nickel or a Dime 

May refer to an item for sale that isn't worth selling, or to describe someone who is particularly tight-fisted when it comes to money.
Ha! I wouldn't give you a nickel or a dime for that lot!

nickel short of a dime 

This phrase is used to say that girl is a 5 out of 10. This phrase can be re-phrased with any amount of pennies.
Guy 1: Hey man, what do you give that chick right there.
Guy 2: Man... she's like a nickel short of a dime...
Guy 3: Hell nah... Shes like a nickel and three pennies from that $h!t.

Drop a dime for a nickel 

Willing to turn someone in or call the cops even at personal cost.

Derived from 'drop a dime' i.e. 'snitch' combined with 'I would do that for a nickel'
A: "Don't tell him, he'll turn you in"
B: "But wouldn't he get in trouble too?"
A: "He would drop a dime for a nickel"
Drop a dime for a nickel by TinMoths December 18, 2021

A nickel too much to get a dime 

When someone is in need of public assistance, but make a nickel too much to be eligible.
"The cost of living has gone up so much that we're struggling to get by. I'm getting less food for a much higher price than a year ago, and my public assistance applications were denied. We would honestly be in a better place if I quit work and become eligible for all of the public assistance programs because right now I make a nickel too much to get a dime!"

Nickel-Dimer 

A person who must give you the smallest, waste-of-time, and meaningless task at work in order to show others( upper management) their "usefulness" on a daily basis(which mainly consists of hearing their own voice). This "task" takes no breaks, and therefore sometimes you are "asked" to do things on your break, lunch, and if they could get away with it, your day off.
Co-worker #1: "What the fuck are you doing back, didn't you go out to lunch today?"
Co-worker #2: "Yeah, but fuck me, I came back early and I got 'asked' by the Nickel-Dimer to follow up on an inquiry."
Co-worker #1: "Really? Haven't you learned to take really long lunches? You both are assholes!"
Nickel-Dimer by The MI Shocker December 10, 2013

nickle and dime

The 510 area code (eastern section of the San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland and surrounding area). "5" for nickle, "10" for dime.
Somebody from Oakland or Alameda County is "Reppin' the nickle and dime".
nickle and dime by Reese January 11, 2004