"on someone's dime" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "on someone's dime",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "on someone's dime",
      "name": "en-pp"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995 December 22, Adam Green, “If Holden Caulfield Spent a Weekend in Today's Manhattan”, in New York Times, retrieved 2019-06-03",
          "text": "They challenged my knowledge of the book, suggested that my article would inevitably be lousy and concluded that J. D. Salinger would be disgusted by what I was doing—all the while drinking on my dime.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 September 23, John Cloud, “The Plot Comes Into Focus”, in Time, retrieved 2019-06-03",
          "text": "Their simple lives contrast sharply with the multimillion-dollar rumors surrounding Osama bin Laden. […] [T]hey weren't living large on his dime.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 19, Sebastian Doggart, “Green Card, Golden Ticket”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2019-06-03",
          "text": "But if you’re a Haitian, Mexican, or Brit and you step on American soil and are then detained by US officials, without a visa, you’ll be on the next boat back home—and on your dime too.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "At the monetary expense of the person indicated."
      ],
      "id": "en-on_someone's_dime-en-prep_phrase-03M-uiSy",
      "links": [
        [
          "monetary",
          "monetary"
        ],
        [
          "expense",
          "expense"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) At the monetary expense of the person indicated."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "out of one's own pocket"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "on someone's own dime"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "on someone's dime"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "on someone's dime",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "on someone's dime",
      "name": "en-pp"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "out of one's own pocket"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995 December 22, Adam Green, “If Holden Caulfield Spent a Weekend in Today's Manhattan”, in New York Times, retrieved 2019-06-03",
          "text": "They challenged my knowledge of the book, suggested that my article would inevitably be lousy and concluded that J. D. Salinger would be disgusted by what I was doing—all the while drinking on my dime.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 September 23, John Cloud, “The Plot Comes Into Focus”, in Time, retrieved 2019-06-03",
          "text": "Their simple lives contrast sharply with the multimillion-dollar rumors surrounding Osama bin Laden. […] [T]hey weren't living large on his dime.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 19, Sebastian Doggart, “Green Card, Golden Ticket”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2019-06-03",
          "text": "But if you’re a Haitian, Mexican, or Brit and you step on American soil and are then detained by US officials, without a visa, you’ll be on the next boat back home—and on your dime too.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "At the monetary expense of the person indicated."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "monetary",
          "monetary"
        ],
        [
          "expense",
          "expense"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) At the monetary expense of the person indicated."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "on someone's own dime"
    }
  ],
  "word": "on someone's dime"
}