The difference between Fleece and Nickel and dime
When used as nouns, fleece means hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal, whereas nickel and dime means fifteen years.
When used as verbs, fleece means to con or trick (someone) out of money, whereas nickel and dime means to charge, or be charged, several unexpected small amounts of money, often in the form of fees, taxes, or related expenses to a venture, which when taken as a whole add up to a significant unexpected cost.
Nickel and dime is also adjective with the meaning: small time.
check bellow for the other definitions of Fleece and Nickel and dime
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Fleece as a noun (uncountable):
Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
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Fleece as a noun (uncountable):
Insulating skin with the wool attached
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Fleece as a noun (countable):
A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
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Fleece as a noun (countable):
An insulating wooly jacket
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Fleece as a noun (roofing):
Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
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Fleece as a noun:
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
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Fleece as a noun:
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
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Fleece as a verb (transitive):
To con or trick (someone) out of money.
Examples:
"There is a difference between bookmaking, an entirely respectable profession, and fleecing people, which isn’t."
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Fleece as a verb (transitive):
To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
Examples:
"During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days."
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Fleece as a verb (transitive):
To cover with, or as if with, wool.
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Nickel and dime as an adjective (US, idiomatic, colloquial):
Small time; operating on a small scale; involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap.
Examples:
"I bought my new ride from some nickel and dime used-car salesman."
"Don't waste your time with that; their operations are nickel and dime."
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Nickel and dime as a verb (US, idiomatic, colloquial):
To charge, or be charged, several unexpected small amounts of money, often in the form of fees, taxes, or related expenses to a venture, which when taken as a whole add up to a significant unexpected cost.
Examples:
"I got nickel and dimed to death by the phone company's sneaky extra charges."
"It seems like a great offer, but they will just nickel and dime you until you've spent more than retail anyway."
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Nickel and dime as a verb (US, idiomatic, colloquial, figuratively):
To wear down in small increments; to quibble or obsess endlessly with (someone) over trifles.
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Nickel and dime as a noun (US, slang):
Fifteen years.