We Are Missing a Dime

Not THE dime. A dime.

Mr. Mr. Big Food & I are engaging in some crappy old behavior: balancing the checkbook. We're off A dime.

We started off 200 dollars and A dime off. Mr. Big Food discovered an arithmetic error, and now we're off A dime. He looked for it.

A dime is Mr. Big Food's threshold. If it had been 11cents he'd still be looking.