| 单词 | never a penny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnever a penny c. A very small or the least amount of money, wealth, etc. Usually in negative contexts, as not a penny, never a penny, not worth a penny. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum > coin as type of pennya1225 sumc1300 mitea1375 minutec1384 groat1513 souse1570 widow's mite1572 stivera1640 brass farthing1642 shilling1737 rap1778 skilligalee1834 skillick1835 steever1892 razoo1919 a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) 67 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 163 Alse mid his penie alse oðer mið his punde. c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 707 Neuere heer after wol I with hym mete For peny [v.r. penye] ne for pound. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 451 Alderlast..Was peynted Povert..That not a peny hadde in wolde. 1457 W. Worcester in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 170 A peny yn seson spent wille safe a pounde. 1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 74 Clare had never peny for hyt. 1570 T. Wilson in tr. Demosthenes 3 Orations 97 (margin) It is the well spent penny that saveth the pound. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 225 Wilt thou stand with God for a day or two, huckle with him for a penny? 1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage vi. 51 Money which hath as much fine Silver as a penny, is notwithstanding not worth a penny. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. xiii. vi. 49 He had not one Penny in his Pocket. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. i. 13 Never knew a man worth a penny with such a coat as that on. 1823 Ld. Byron Let. 21 Apr. (1980) X. 155 I had been too long negligent of the ‘pence’ and not very careful of the ‘pounds’. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xii. 104 There they were on the street, never a penny the better for their pains. 1933 V. Brittain Test. of Youth ii. 53 Each fresh refusal to spend another penny on my education. 1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby ix. 90 A man on his own..can cross frontiers without anyone being a penny the wiser. 1995 Independent 14 Apr. 19/7 Forty-one, not a penny to my name, no prospect of ever having anything to my name. < as lemmas |
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