put a dime in someone
v. phr.— «Who put a dime in you? It doesn’t matter what I say…you are going to say the opposite side and take everything out of context.» —“Re: White Privilege over Negroes?” by HeyShitForBrains Usenet: chi.general Jan. 20, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The expression to turn on a dime means “to change quickly.” Early on the phrase referred to horses or horse-drawn vehicles and later to motorized ones, and suggested the idea of changing direction quickly and easily without needing a large turning...
Mark in Scranton, Pennsylvania, calls about a phrase he heard on an old detective show: drop a dime. It means “to inform on someone” or “tip off the police,” and comes from the practice of literally dropping a dime into a...