Определение a-penny в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- Henny Penny
 - A fictional character in the children's story Chicken Licken, a hen, in some versions the main character 
 - Penny
 - A diminutive of the female given name Penelope 
 - Penny Black
 - The world's first official postage stamp, issued in 1840 in the United Kingdom as part of postal reforms 
 - Penny Blacks
 - plural form of Penny Black 
 - a penny saved is a penny earned
 - A penny not spent is beneficial to a person later on, as it is in one's pocket 
 - bad penny
 - A person or thing which is unpleasant, disreputable, or otherwise unwanted, especially one which repeatedly appears at inopportune times 
But as the perennial bad penny of British political life, he keeps turning up at embarrassing moments.
 - bad penny
 - A counterfeit or damaged penny 
 - cost a pretty penny
 - To be expensive 
Trying to be jolly.
 - don't be penny wise and pound foolish
 - Don't focus on minutiae and lose sight of the big picture; don't obsess over tiny inconsequential efficiencies while glaring inefficiencies are going on elsewhere 
 - don't be penny wise and pound foolish
 - Don't be careful when it comes to spending small amounts of money, but careless when spending much larger amounts 
 - in for a penny
 - Often used elliptical form of in for a penny, in for a pound 
 - in for a penny, in for a pound
 - Expressing recognition that one must, having started something, see it through to its end, rather than stopping short thereof; accepting that one must “go the whole hog” 
It appears to be a situation where the greenhouse proponents are in for a penny, in for a pound. As long as the myth needs to be kept alive, this is the inescapable conclusion.
 - new penny
 - Following decimalisation, the name given to the coin worth one hundredth of a pound sterling; now known simply as the penny. Symbol: p 
 - old penny
 - The pre-decimalisation United Kingdom penny, 1/240 of an old pound. Symbol: d 
 - old penny
 - A coin worth one old penny 
 - penny
 - In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢ 
 - penny
 - In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p 
 - penny
 - In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d 
 - penny
 - To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door 
Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.
 - penny
 - To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket 
 - penny
 - In various countries, a small denomination copper or brass coin 
 - penny
 - In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling 
 - penny
 - A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d 
 - penny ante
 - A small stake in gambling 
 - penny ante
 - poker played for small stakes 
 - penny ante
 - A small-scale business transaction 
 - penny arcade
 - A venue for coin-operated devices, most notably during the 1930s 
 - penny arcades
 - plural form of penny arcade 
 - penny chew
 - A chew costing (or formerly costing) one penny 
 - penny chews
 - plural form of penny chew 
 - penny dreadful
 - A cheap pulp novel produced in 19th century Britain 
 - penny dreadfuls
 - plural form of penny dreadful 
 - penny farthing
 - A type of bicycle popular in the 19th century, with the front wheel far larger than the rear one 
 - penny for them
 - Form of penny for your thoughts 
 - penny for your thoughts
 - Used to inquire into the thoughts and feelings of another, especially when the person appears pensive or conflicted 
One day, as your ladyship was playing on the harpsichord to my master, Mr Jones was sitting in the next room, and methought he looked melancholy. La! says I, Mr Jones, what's the matter? a penny for your thoughts, says I.
 - penny in the fusebox
 - An improvised repair made with no regard for safety 
The fix I made was just a penny in a fusebox; we need to revisit it and fix the problem for real.
 - penny pincher
 - One who spends little money; one who is very frugal or cautious with money 
Over the years, he developed a reputation as a penny pincher who wouldn't spend money for anything.
 - penny pinchers
 - plural form of penny pincher 
 - penny stock
 - A highly speculative stock selling for less than one dollar per share and quoted in cents 
 - penny stocks
 - plural form of penny stock 
 - penny whistles
 - plural form of penny whistle 
 - penny wise and pound foolish
 - prudent and thrifty with small amounts of money, but wasteful and profligate with large amounts 
 - penny-farthing
 - An early bicycle having a large front wheel and much smaller rear one 
 - penny-pincher
 - Alternative spelling of penny pincher 
 - penny-pinching
 - reluctant to spend money; close-fisted 
 - penny-pinching
 - reluctance to spend money; thrift or parsimony 
 - penny-pinching
 - Instance of extreme economy 
 - penny-wise
 - Thrifty in regards to small amounts of money 
 - penny-wise and pound-foolish
 - Thrifty about petty matters and wasteful about important matters 
 - pretty penny
 - A considerable amount of money; a high price or a high income 
Schwarzman's firm makes a pretty penny in a number of finance fields.
 - shove ha'penny
 - A board game of physical skill and concentration usually played in pubs in Great Britain 
 - spend a penny
 - To use the toilet 
 - swarf-penny
 - money due to a castle guard at the end of his service 
 - ten a penny
 - So common as to be practically worthless 
People with your skills are ten a penny these days.
 - the penny drops
 - Understanding is reached, one comprehends 
The penny drops as Fred realises he has been conned.
 - tuppenny-ha'penny
 - Very cheap 
You’d think he’d lost a Rolex rather than that tuppenny-ha’penny old watch of his.
 - two a penny
 - very common; cheap 
 - wheat penny
 - A US one cent coin produced from 1909 to 1959, having a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the obverse and a pair of ears of wheat on the reverse 
 - worth every penny
 - Completely worthwhile 
 - penny-wise pound-foolish
 -  {s} capable of dealing with small things but unable to manage the larger issues
 - half-penny
 -  {n} half a penny
 - penny
 -  {n} the 12th part of a shilling
 - bad penny
 - An unwanted thing that reappears or reoccurs repeatedly 
 - penny has dropped
 -  (deyim) If the "penny has dropped" it means someone has finally realised the situation they are in after possibly being unaware of it for a long time, depending on the situation. The phrase dates back to the Victorian Era and the popular penny-slot arcades. The penny would often stick halfway down the slot and the user would then have to either wait, or give the machine a thump before the 'penny finally dropped' and they could begin playing
 - the penny dropped
 -  (deyim) When the penny drops, someone belatedly understands something that everyone else has long since understood
 - the penny drops
 -  (deyim) When the penny drops, someone belatedly understands something that everyone else has long since understood
 - Penny
 - diminutive of Penelope 
 - Penny Black
 - the first British stamp for sticking on envelopes. It was introduced in 1840, and its value was one penny, which was the cost of sending a letter by post in Britain. The stamp shows the head of Queen Victoria on a dark background, and stamp collectors consider it to be very important, although it is not the rarest British stamp 
 - a penny for your thoughts
 - what are you thinking about? 
 - a penny saved is a penny gained
 - by economizing a person can save up 
 - bad penny
 - worthless coin 
 - bright as a new penny(p)
 - (metaphor) shining brightly 
 - cost a pretty penny
 - was quite expensive 
 - earles penny
 - Earnest money 
 - earles penny
 - Same as Arles penny 
 - earn an honest penny
 - earn money honestly, work for one's pay 
 - earned a pretty penny
 - made a good profit 
 - ha'penny
 - another spelling of halfpenny 
 - ha'penny
 -  {i} (British) halfpenny, coin that is used in the United Kingdom and is equal to half a penny (also halfpence)
 - in for a penny in for a pound
 - there's nothing to lose, don't start something you can't finish 
 - it cost a pretty penny
 - it was quite expensive, it cost quite a lot 
 - new penny
 - a coin used in Great Britain since 1971 worth one hundredth of a pound 
 - not a penny to his name
 - he is dirt poor, he has no money whatsoever 
 - not a penny to one's name
 - lacks money, has absolutely no money, is very poor 
 - penny
 - Chief every-day coin until modern times Originally silver Later a large bronze coin 
 - penny
 - a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit 
 - penny
 - Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver 
 - penny
 - a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound 
 - penny
 - An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; usually indicated by the abbreviation d 
 - penny
 - emphasis If you say, for example, that you do not have a penny, or that something does not cost a penny, you are emphasizing that you do not have any money at all, or that something did not cost you any money at all. The Brilliantons paid their rent on time and did not owe him a penny 
 - penny
 - a small metal disc given to shoppers as a token of thanks for their purchases Once a lot of these have been collected, they are occasionally exchanged for other things or thrown into larger collections run by charities working to get these worthless bits of metal out of circulation Occasionally a slightly larger version is found, commonly known as a tuppence 
 - penny
 - a term used in designating nail sizes 
 - penny
 - In Britain, a penny is one hundredth of a pound, or a coin worth this amount of money. Cider also goes up by a penny a pint while sparkling wine will cost another eight pence a bottle. a shiny newly minted penny 
 - penny
 - As applied to nails, it originally indicated the price per hundred The term now series as a measure of nail length and is abbreviated by the letter d 
 - penny
 - The form pence is used for the plural of meaning 1 
 - penny
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 - penny
 -  {i} coin of low value; British coin of low value; coin worth one cent (used in USA and Canada); fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the U.K
 - penny
 - If you say the penny dropped, you mean that someone suddenly understood or realized something 
 - penny
 - a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound 
 - penny
 - Common nail length Originally, nails were sold by "penny weight", or price per hundred 
 - penny
 - Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny 
 - penny
 - In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling; also formerly in Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p 
 - penny
 - Unit of measurement for nail length, e g , a 10d nail is 3 inches long (abbr d) 
 - penny
 - Worth or costing one penny 
 - penny
 - A penny is one cent, or a coin worth one cent. Unleaded gasoline rose more than a penny a gallon 
 - penny
 - A penny is a British coin used before 1971 that was worth one twelfth of a shilling 
 - penny
 - A term applied to nails that originally meant the price per hundred Today, it indicates nail length and is abbreviated with the letter "d," the English sign for one cent 
 - penny
 - (the initial of denarius) 
 - penny
 - a 1¢ coin -- "Janet has 5 quarters, 7 dimes, 4 nickels, and 7 pennies " (211) 
 - penny
 - Term used to indicate nail length; abbreviated by the letter "d" Applies to common, box, casing, and finishing nails 
 - penny
 - Things that are said to be two a penny or ten a penny are not valuable or interesting because they are very common and easy to find. Leggy blondes are two a penny in Hollywood 
 - penny
 - To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the door frame and the door 
 - penny
 - Denoting pound weight for one thousand; used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds 
 - penny ante
 - poker played for small stakes a business deal on a trivial scale 
 - penny ante
 - involving very small amounts of money, and not important 
 - penny arcade
 - an arcade with coin-operated devices for entertainment 
 - penny black
 - British postage stamp 
 - penny dreadful
 -  {i} low-quality or overly dramatic novel, dime novel (British)
 - penny for your thoughts
 - what are you thinking about 
 - penny loafer
 - leather slip-on shoe with a slot on the vamp for carrying a single penny 
 - penny pincher
 - A very stingy person 
 - penny pincher
 - someone who is excessively careful with money (who pinches every penny before letting go of it) 
 - penny shares
 - Penny shares are shares that are offered for sale at a very low price 
 - penny stock
 - a stock selling for less that $1/share 
 - penny whistle
 - a musical instrument like a small pipe with six holes, that you play by blowing = tin whistle 
 - penny wise and pound foolish
 - intelligent in trivial matters but foolish in important ones 
 - penny-farthing
 - A penny-farthing is an old-fashioned bicycle that had a very large front wheel and a small back wheel. a bicycle with a very large front wheel and a very small back wheel, used in the late 19th century 
 - penny-pinch
 - spend money frugally; spend as little as possible 
 - penny-pinching
 - disapproval Penny-pinching is the practice of trying to spend as little money as possible. Government penny-pinching is blamed for the decline in food standards 
 - penny-pinching
 -  {s} cheap or stingy, miserly; unwilling to spend money
 - penny-pinching
 - giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" 
 - penny-pinching
 -  {i} cheapness, stinginess, miserliness; quality of being economical, thrift
 - penny-pinching
 - disapproval Penny-pinching people spend as little money as possible. small-minded penny-pinching administrators. unwilling to spend or give money mean 
 - penny-pinching
 - extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily 
 - penny-wise
 - thrifty in small matters only 
 - penny-wise
 - capable or wise in dealing with small money matters or other small issues 
 - pretty penny
 - considerable amount of money, rather large amount of money 
 - rome penny
 - See Peter pence, under Peter 
 - saved every penny
 - saved all of his money, economized as much as possible 
 - spend a penny
 - eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" 
 - spend one's penny
 - urinate, pee 
 - the penny dropped
 - understood slowly, only comprehended after a period of time 
 - there's not a penny to his name
 - he has no wealth to speak of, he lives from day to day, he lives from hand to mouth 
 - think one's penny silver
 - exaggerate one's own importance, act in a conceited manner, boast 
 - turn an honest penny
 - earn an honest living, work at a respectable job to earn a salary 
 - two-penny
 - cheap, inexpensive, having little value