Customers are being 'nickeled-and-dimed' by the cell phone company. [=customers are being charged extra small fees by the cell phone company that will add up to a lot of money over time]
(..) What are you going to believe in? When a man like Senator Joseph Paine gets up and swears - - that I've been robbing kids of nickels and dimes. A man I've admired and worshipped all my life. There are a lot of fancy words here. Some of them are carved in stone, some (..)1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(..) I was amazed at his violent reaction - - until the evidence came to me that he owned those very acres. He'd laid plans to make an enormous profit out of the nickels and dimes - - scraped together by the boys of this country. Faced with that... regardless of my personal feelings for the boy, - (..)1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington