Examples of 'dropped a dime' in a sentence
Meaning of "dropped a dime"
The phrase 'dropped a dime' is an idiomatic expression that means to provide information or report someone to the authorities, often implying that the information shared is detrimental or incriminating. It originates from a time when a pay phone call cost ten cents ('a dime') and dialing emergency services or reporting a crime could be done by 'dropping a dime' into the phone slot
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- simple past tense and past participle of drop a dime
How to use "dropped a dime" in a sentence
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dropped a dime
I could have dropped a dime a million times.
One of you guys could have dropped a dime.
Maybe he dropped a dime on one ofhis students.
Must make you wonder who might have dropped a dime on you.
Busybody dropped a dime on me to the racetrack bosses.
And he never dropped a dime.
Someone dropped a dime on a vamp nest near here.
Guy you kneed in the groin was your date who dropped a dime on you.
Maybe he dropped a dime on one of his students.
But does not it bother you that one of your crew dropped a dime on you.
The guy who dropped a dime on her.
You walked up to a wishing well, dropped a dime.
The hit man dropped a dime on her.
You caught me stealir those computers, you coulda dropped a dime on me.
He definitely dropped a dime on his brother.
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Ai not no way five-O out here like this unless one of you all dropped a dime.
Someone must have dropped a dime on him.
He dropped a dime on his own crew.
I know it was you who dropped a dime on El Verizón.
Someone dropped a dime on that shooter from stuyvesant town.
I think I would have already dropped a dime on you.
We just dropped a dime on your boy.
Speaking French Someone dropped a dime on me.
Maybe he dropped a dime on one of his i.
And then nothing, until someone dropped a dime on him.
This guy dropped a dime on william.
I would like to take the credit, but somebody dropped a dime on Chi Chi.
Somebody dropped a dime on him.
Or… counterpoint, maybe you handled it wrong when you dropped a dime on dear old Dad.
Provo dropped a dime on her.
You know, I almost did not believe somebody dropped a dime on you.
I must have dropped a dime earlier.
Oh, the entire criminal underworld knows that I dropped a dime on Elijah.
Lenny dropped a dime on you.
I talked to your best friend, he dropped a dime on you ♪.
First he dropped a dime on him.
You caught me stealin ' those computers, you coulda dropped a dime on me.
A cabbie dropped a dime on a fare.
He was in my brother 's gang . First he dropped a dime on him.
Lousy rat dropped a dime on us.
Dropped a dime on him, We picked him up.
Someone dropped a dime.
You know, I almost did not believe it, that somebody dropped a dime on you.
My son dropped a dime on them.
Anonymous tip . Someone dropped a dime.
Somebody dropped a dime on annie and told her parents.
I know you . You are the one that dropped a dime on Oliver Queen.
You dropped a dime on your own employees?
You are the one that dropped a dime on Oliver Queen.
And she dropped a dime on him down at headquarters, and now they wanna suspend him.
