"ten a penny" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-ten a penny.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: With literal origins; now usually in the figuratively extended sense. Etymology templates: {{glossary|literal}} literal, {{glossary|figuratively}} figuratively Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} ten a penny (not comparable)
  1. (idiomatic, UK) So common as to be practically or almost worthless. Tags: UK, idiomatic, not-comparable Translations (so common as to be practically worthless): 二束三文 (nisoku sanmon) (Japanese), как собак нерезаных (kak sobak nerezanyx) (Russian), tretton på dussinet (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-ten_a_penny-en-adj-en:very_cheap_or_almost_worthless Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 67 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 60 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 71 29 Synonyms: a dime a dozen, two a penny, average, basic, bog-standard, common, common as bums [Australia, US], common as dirt, common as muck [UK], common as pig tracks, dime a dozen [Australia, US, idiomatic], everyday, frequent, general, habitual, nonrare, par for the course [idiomatic], pedestrian, plain, quotidian, regular, routinary, routine, ten a penny [UK, idiomatic], two a penny [UK, idiomatic], usual, workaday, not worth a dime, bastardly, blown [obsolete], cacky [UK, slang, vulgar], chaffy [obsolete], cocking [vulgar], crapalicious [rare, slang], cruddy [slang], cullionly [obsolete], draffish, draffy [obsolete], dreckish, drecky, duffing [UK, obsolete, slang], floccinaucinihilipilificatious [humorous, rare], for the birds [informal], fucking [vulgar], garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable [obsolete], jabberwocky, junky, mouldy [UK], mucid [figuratively, rare], naughty [obsolete], no-account [UK, US], no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room [US, dated, idiomatic, slang], not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought [obsolete], of no value, pissass [idiomatic, vulgar], punk [US], putid, rubbishly [archaic], rubbishy, sixpenny [dated], scabbed, screwy [archaic], scummy [slang], shand [Scotland], shit, shitey [slang, vulgar], shitstained [vulgar], shitty-ass [US, slang, vulgar], sorry-ass [slang, vulgar], strawlike [figuratively], suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy [US, slang], trinkety, triobolar [obsolete], tripy, two-bit [US, idiomatic, slang], unappreciated, unvaluable [rare], vain, valueless, worthless, worth nothing, wutless [Caribbean] Disambiguation of 'so common as to be practically worthless': 99 1
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ten, a, penny: sold at ten (10) units per penny (1d or 1¢). Tags: not-comparable Related terms: tenpenny, buyer's market
    Sense id: en-ten_a_penny-en-adj-en:literal Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ten, a, penny: sold at ten (10) units per penny (1d or 1¢)."
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          "ten",
          "ten#English"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "nisoku sanmon",
      "sense": "so common as to be practically worthless",
      "word": "二束三文"
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      "roman": "kak sobak nerezanyx",
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      "word": "как собак нерезаных"
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      "word": "tretton på dussinet"
    }
  ],
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}

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