Definition
An insignificant amount
Origins
Derived from not worth a dime.
In Context
- "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?"