• drislands@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    They didn’t frame it as “paying valve three bucks”. They said “paying valve 3 bucks on my 10 dollar game”. The phrase “paying pennies on the dollar” comes to mind as a common idiom for saying you’re paying a small fraction of the total, and neither literally means nor implies paying actual pennies.

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Usually it does refer to paying less than 20% or so, yes. Not literal pennies, though.