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[–] Varyk 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

probably an epiphany instead of some smaller solution occurring to someone.

like if the penny drops, you can go "oh dang."

but if the quarter drops, you have to physically sit down and be moved and just mull over some tevelation that's happening.

penny drops:

quarter drops:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Those guys over at the store will nickel and dime ya to death.

If I had a nickel for every time … I’d have a nickel.

I can’t think of one for quarters.

[–] pack 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Dropped nickles on him" - hit with a sock full of nickles

"Quartered them" - to make a pay phone call in the 90s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That makes it sound like pay phone calls in the 90s cost more than an arm and a leg.

Cuz quartering a four legged animal that you have hunted is when you remove its legs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Don't take any wooden nickels.

And give no quarter to your enemies.

:-)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Dropped quarters: homelessness

Dropped nickels: being 5 minutes late to everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard the expression "drop a dime" before. I've heard turn on a dime, so I assume a dime is physically very small. But that's the only association I have, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

To drop a dime on someone is to snitch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

i dream about quarters in my hand, they're significant but don't do anything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

We don't use pennys, nickels, quarters or dimes where I'm from, and aside from the quarter, I have no idea how much value any of them have, so I probably wouldn't give any meaning to it...