@KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish • edit-21 month agoThere's "when the penny dropped" and someone can "drop a dime". What meaning would you give to dropping nickels and quarters?message-square9fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
arrow-up123arrow-down1message-squareThere's "when the penny dropped" and someone can "drop a dime". What meaning would you give to dropping nickels and quarters?@KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish • edit-21 month agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-square@pack@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 month ago“Dropped nickles on him” - hit with a sock full of nickles “Quartered them” - to make a pay phone call in the 90s
minus-square@topherclay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoThat 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.
“Dropped nickles on him” - hit with a sock full of nickles
“Quartered them” - to make a pay phone call in the 90s
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.