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PRONUNCIATION OF SPEND A PENNY

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WHAT DOES SPEND A PENNY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

spend a penny

Urination

Urination is the release of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the urinary meatus outside of the body. It is also known medically as micturition, voiding, uresis, or, rarely, emiction, and known colloquially by various names including tinkling, peeing, weeing, and pissing. In healthy humans the process of urination is under voluntary control. In infants, some elderly individuals, and those with neurological injury, urination may occur as an involuntary reflex. In some animals, in addition to expelling waste material, urination can mark territory or express submissiveness. Physiologically, urination involves coordination between the central, autonomic, and somatic nervous systems. Brain centers that regulate urination include the pontine micturition center, periaqueductal gray, and the cerebral cortex. In male placental mammals, urine is ejected through the penis. In female placental mammals, urine is ejected through the vulva.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPEND A PENNY

spence
spencer
Spencer Gulf
spend
spendable
spendall
spender
spending
spending money
spending power
spending spree
spends
spendthrift
spendy
Spengler
Spenser
Spenserian
Spenserian sonnet
Spenserian stanza
spent

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPEND A PENNY

a bad penny
a pretty penny
catchpenny
eightpenny
fivepenny
fourpenny
halfpenny
ha´penny
jenny
new penny
penny
scrapepenny
sixpenny
tenpenny
threepenny
truepenny
tuppenny
tuppenny-ha´penny
twalpenny
two a penny
twopenny

Synonyms and antonyms of spend a penny in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spend a penny» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPEND A PENNY

Find out the translation of spend a penny to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spend a penny from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spend a penny» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

花一分钱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gastar un centavo
570 millions of speakers

English

spend a penny
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एक पैसा खर्च
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تنفق فلسا واحدا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тратить ни копейки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gastar um tostão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

একটি পয়সা ব্যয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dépenser un sou
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menghabiskan satu sen
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verbringen einen Pfennig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ペニーを過ごす
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

한 푼도 지출
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nglampahi dinten
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chi tiêu một xu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒரு பைசாவை செலவிடலாம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एक पैसा टाक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bir kuruş harcamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spendere un centesimo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wydać ani grosza
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

витрачати ні копійки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

petrece un ban
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περάσετε μια δεκάρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spandeer ´n sent
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spendera ett öre
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bruke en krone
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spend a penny

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPEND A PENNY»

The term «spend a penny» is very widely used and occupies the 22.476 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPEND A PENNY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spend a penny

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPEND A PENNY»

Discover the use of spend a penny in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spend a penny and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned
Sarabella Solomon. Origin In George Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs, written in 1633, the original form of this proverb used 'got' or 'gained' instead of 'earned'. It was quoted as “A penny spar'd is twice got”. By declining to spend a penny and to ...
Sarabella Solomon, 2012
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The Worth of a Penny, Or A Caution to Keep Money: Now Newly ...
Know the Worth of a Penny ; There is no companion like the penny : be a good Husband, and thou wilt soon get a penny to spend, a penny to lend, and a penny for thy friend ; and since we are born, we must live, Vivions nous, let us live as ...
Henry Peacham, 1813
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Here's a Penny
When she reached the corner, Patsy went into the grocery store to spend a penny for some candy. She left her coach standing by the step. Patsy didn't mean to stay in the store so long but she couldn't make up her mind about the candy.
Carolyn Haywood, 2005
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A Measure of Wheat for a Penny
As soon as I get up I have to spend a penny.” Alice smiled and realised that her verbalised thoughts had caused confusion in the old woman. She pondered briefly on what she thought might happen in her life when she was that age.
Ron Clooney, 2009
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The What-not; or Ladies' handy-book
This improvement admits of different kinds of ribbon being manufactured at the same time. The Penny and the Pound. — It requires more judgment to spend a penny than to spend a pound. Of course, we mean to spend it advantageously.
‎1863
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Infidelity vnmasked, or, The confvtation of a booke ...
... with one another. If keeping the Commandements be as easy as to spend a penny,for gaining Thousands of pounds, how comes it , that so few keepe , and somany breake them, which scarcely any Christian would, yea in some fen fe, ...
Edward Knott, 1652
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Songs, Duets, Chorusses ... as sung in ... Giovanni in ...
BALLAD—Lerousnno—(Old Air.) I have a little sixpence, A pretty little sixpence, I love my little sixpence dearer than my life; But I'll spend a penny, ' I'll lend a penny, And I'll take fourpence home to my wife, 1 have a little fourpence, A prett little ...
‎1820
8
Good Old Days Country Wisdom
Years ago you could actually spend a penny. There were penny postcards, penny arcades and penny bubblegum machines. Immies were a penny, and Con Edison used to advertise, "Look at all the electricity a penny will buy." Of course, we ...
Ken Tate, Janice Tate, 2001
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Chambers Idioms
[In full, a penny for your thoughts, a saying recorded in the 16C] penny wise and pound foolish saving small amounts of money in everyday matters while wasting large sums in other ways. a pretty penny see pretty. spend a penny (infeuph) to ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
penny wise and pound foolish saving small amounts of money in everyday matters while wasting large sums in other ways. a pretty penny see pretty. spend a penny (infeuph) to urinate: Do you need to spend a penny before we get on the train ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPEND A PENNY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spend a penny is used in the context of the following news items.
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Harrogate Council say 'It costs thousands to spend a penny' as they …
“With very low usage rates in some of our public toilets - particularly those outside the very centre of our urban areas - spending a penny can cost the taxpayer ... «Harrogate Advertiser, Jul 15»
2
Kopacz: Poland will not pay a penny for Greece
Poland will not spend a penny from its own budget to help Greece, Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz told a press conference in Warsaw after a cabinet meeting on ... «thenews.pl, Jul 15»
3
£1 charge to spend a penny aims to solve Bridgnorth Boatyard pub's …
A riverside pub popular with tourists has started charging £1 for non-patrons to spend a penny after the owner got fed up with one too many blockages. «expressandstar.com, Jul 15»
4
Lamp post for dogs to spend a penny on QM2
There will be ten extra kennels for dogs and cats and a lamp post and fire hydrant for dogs to use to spend a penny to make pets from both sides of the Atlantic ... «ITV News, Jul 15»
5
Spend a penny? Indian city to pay people to use public lavatories
An Indian company has come up with a new scheme to tackle the problem of people urinating and defecating in the street – paying people a rupee each time ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Campaigners spend a penny for youth club project in Weymouth
YOUNGSTERS in Weymouth will have a new place to spend their time after a disused toilet block was transformed into a youth drop-in centre. The building on ... «Dorset Echo, May 15»
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Here's where you can spend a penny, free of guilt, in Derby city centre
Here's where you can spend a penny, free of guilt, in Derby city centre. By Derby Telegraph | Posted: May 23, 2015. By PAUL WHYATT. Some toilet venues in ... «Derby Telegraph, May 15»
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Need to spend a penny? Gender matters in USA LGBT issues
In legislation proposed, in some cases passed, individuals are to be barred from restrooms based on their chosen gender, instead chromosomes rule the roost. «The News Hub, May 15»
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How do you spend a penny in Stockholm's cashless society?
You wouldn't think Bjorn Ulvaeus had any cash problems - as a member of the seventies super group Abba he made vast piles of it. He even wrote the hit Money ... «ITV News, Mar 15»
10
Public could be charged 20p to spend a penny in Wrexham
The proposal is one of several recommendations made for the five town centre loos – all of which are described as not being fit for purpose. Wrexham ... «Daily Post North Wales, Feb 15»

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