KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · edit-25 days agoThere's "when the penny dropped" and someone can "drop a dime". What meaning would you give to dropping nickels and quarters?message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
arrow-up122arrow-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-25 days agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squarepacklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 days ago“Dropped nickles on him” - hit with a sock full of nickles “Quartered them” - to make a pay phone call in the 90s
minus-squaretopherclay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days 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.