"two ha'pennies for a penny" meaning in English

{
  "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"
        }
      ],
      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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"
}

{
  "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": [
        "British English",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any money whatsoever."
      ],
      "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"
}