NICKEL & DIME (& PENNY)

Answer the clues with expressions containing pennies, nickels, and/or dimes.

1. Expensive 

2. Skinflint/miser 

3. "Do you finally get it?"

4. "What's on your mind?"

5. Slip-on shoe with a slot

6. Locale in a Beatles' song

7. Something of absolutely no value

8. Low stakes - like some poker games 

9. Be careful not to be tricked or scammed 

10. To brake heavily and come to an abrupt halt 

11. Saving a little money, wasting a lot of money 

12. Once you start something, you should finish it 

13. Musical drama by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill 

14. Make a covert phone all (to inform on someone) 

15. Metaphor for a tiny amount of money or poverty 

16. To charge small, cumulative, and often hidden fees 

17. To pivot, maneuver, or change direction with great agility 

18. Something so common or plentiful that it holds little value

19. Do something with precision - like make a perfect football pass 

20. Old-fashioned  variety store that sold a wide assortment of  small, everyday household goods. 

 

Answers:

 

1. Pretty penny

2. Penny-pincher 

3. "Has the penny dropped?"

4. "A penny for your thoughts"

5. Penny loafer

6. Penny Lane

7. Not worth a plug nickel

8. Penny-ante

9. "Don't take any wooden nickels."

10. Stop on a dime 

11. Penny wise, pound foolish

12. In for a penny, in for a pound

13. The Threepenny Opera  

14. Drop a dime

15. One thin dime

16. Nickel and dime

17. Turn on a dime 

18. A dime a dozen

19. Drop a dime 

20. Five-and-dime (or five-and-ten)