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单词 not to have a penny to bless oneself with
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not to have a penny to bless oneself with
d. not to have a penny to bless oneself with: in allusion to the cross on the silver penny (cf. German Kreuzer), or to the practice of crossing the palm with a piece of silver.
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the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > lack money
not to have a penny to bless oneself with1546
not to have two pennies to rub together1827
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. viii. sig. Kiii He had not..one peny to blysse hym.
1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1619) 625/2 The pestilence of penny..he hath in his purse to blesse himself with.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 47 I haven't a shilling to bless myself with.
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