two ha'pennies for a penny

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

British usage; Dated

"I bet you he hasn't got two ha'pennies for a penny — they never have, these people."
"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."
"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."

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