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Rpsh Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

there is no dime to my name.

Could you tell me what the "dime" means here?
  

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rpsh there is no dime to my name. The structure is odd if it means what I think it means: I don't have a dime to my name = I am absolutely penniless; I have no money. ('dime' = American 10-cent coin) Otherwise, its meaning is a mystery to me.

— Mister Micawber

  • rpsh there is no dime to my name.
  • The structure is odd if it means what I think it means: I don't have a dime to my name = I am absolutely penniless; I have no money.
  • ('dime' = American 10-cent coin) Otherwise, its meaning is a mystery to me.
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rpshthere is no dime to my name.
The structure is odd if it means what I think it means:

I don't have a dime to my name = I am absolutely penniless; I have no money. ('dime' = American 10-cent coin)

Otherwise, its meaning is a mystery to me.
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Here, I have a problem about the "name". When we say " real estate owned by someone", here is a form containing a name which means someone has a house, right? So can the sentence in my question be transformed into this one: no dime owned by me?
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rpshSo can the sentence in my question be transformed into this one: no dime owned by me?
No. It is a fixed idiom— to not have a dime to one's name.
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Got it, thank you!
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