“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.
Don’t take any wooden nickels.
And give no quarter to your enemies.
:-)
Dropped quarters: homelessness
Dropped nickels: being 5 minutes late to everything.
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.
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.
To drop a dime on someone is to snitch.
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…
i dream about quarters in my hand, they’re significant but don’t do anything
