Usage of "small-time"

Of minor importance.

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Examples for "nickel-and-dime"

Examples for "nickel-and-dime"

Penny Auctions are in the nickel-and-dime section of the internet-commerce department store. 
 Wired 

By this time Ainesley could see that the store was a nickel-and-dime operation. 
 Anthill: a novel 

It's like having a car that's starting to nickel-and-dime you. 
 The Girl I Used to Be 

Law enforcement isn't interested in the nickel-and-dime stuff anymore. 
 A killing night 

Every Thursday afternoon there is a nickel-and-dime poker game. 
 The Guardian 

Использование термина small-time на английском

Just because we're not big-city New York doesn't mean we're small-time technology. 
 My deadly valentine 

The one others called scholar, a small-time potterer here among the ruins. 
 Orb Sceptre Throne 

Vetinari should be made to understand the plight of the small-time entrepreneur. 
 Raising Steam 

Smuggling gold or whatever in Africa would be too small-time for him. 
 Night of knives 

Robert Mitchum, wonderfully laconic as a small-time hood, headed a brilliant cast. 
 The Guardian 

Billy Mensch was a small-time drug dealer turned contract killer from Philadelphia. 
 Mistress of the game 

A small-time doctor in a Central American village notices a strange new disease. 
 Wired 

Still, he said that small-time investors should probably avoid the partnerships. 
 Reuters 

The group got into small-time arson and animal sacrifices, and then it escalated. 
 NY Magazine 

He'd made the mistake of thinking that she was a not-too-bright, small-time hustler. 
 Dark rivers of the heart 

At one time she was a Strong Woman in small-time vaudeville. 
 Piccadilly Jim 

From industrial manufacturers to small-time seamstresses, all hands were on deck. 
 The South African 

I knew the handful of small-time outfits that were friendly with Papa Danwe. 
 Mob rules 

Allah, though, in his infinite wisdom, had other paths for the small-time hood. 
 The capitol game 

Buck's dreams were just that, a small-time thief's dream of a big score. 
 Acts of nature 

Not the hovels or the small-time crooks or the dope dealers. 
 Silence of the grave 

Значения термина small-time на английском