See two ha'pennies for a penny in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Suggesting that somebody has so little money that they could not even exchange somebody's penny for two halfpennies.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "noun" }, "expansion": "two ha'pennies for a penny", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "British English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1962, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs, Theatre Arts, volume 46, page 114:", "text": "I bet you he hasn't got two ha'pennies for a penny — they never have, these people.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1963, New Society, volume 2, page 10:", "text": "A lot of rowdy-dowdies, poverty stricken — blunt but true, they haven't got two ha'pennies for a penny — dirty, no interest in their children.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1980, Robert Barltrop, Jim Wolveridge, The Muvver Tongue, page 18:", "text": "In that condition he hasn't got a halfpenny to scratch himself with — an irreverent departure from the pious 'not a penny to bless himself'; or two ha'pennies for a penny, nor a brass farthing or a penny to his name.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Any money whatsoever." ], "id": "en-two_ha'pennies_for_a_penny-en-noun-nv3DWBrO", "links": [ [ "money", "money" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, idiomatic, dated, in negative constructions) Any money whatsoever." ], "raw_tags": [ "in negative constructions" ], "tags": [ "UK", "dated", "idiomatic" ] } ], "word": "two ha'pennies for a penny" }
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