单词 | not have a penny to bless oneself with |
释义 | not have a penny to bless oneself with dated Be completely impoverished.After I got out of jail without a penny to bless myself with, as they say there, one of the girls took me under her wing, but the place she brought me turned out to be - surprise surprise - a whorehouse....
Alluding to the cross on an old silver penny or to the practice of crossing a person's palm with silver for luck See parent entry: bless |
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