10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TWOPENNY-HALFPENNY»
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Where could I find any information about it ? K. F. C. The Origin of the Expression
" Twopenny- halfpenny "=Paltry. — Most of us are, I suppose, familiar with these
or similar expressions, twopenny-halfpenny fellow, twopenny-halfpenny doll, &c.
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The Proverbial Bernard Shaw: An Index to Proverbs in the ...
TWO-PENNY-HALFPENNY(TUPENNY-HA'PENNY): 1. ... the chief objection to
fictitious romance is that it is seldom so romantic as the truth, and, as
manufactured by a twopenny-halfpenny Cervantes like Kennedy, is as often as
not a cynical ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 1994
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Jews and Christians: Volume 6: Graeco-Roman Views
[supplemented from Recension B] Naevius,5 prefect of Egypt and prefect of the
praetorian guard at Rome; and now you prosecute this man.' Isidorus: 'My Lord
Caesar, what do you care for a twopenny- halfpenny Jew like Agrippa?' Claudius
...
She was the one called Tchekunda. With her came Twopenny-halfpenny. The
latter was beyond all description. “I've not seen you for a long time, either,” the
gallant went on, addressing Twopenny-halfpenny; “how is it you seem to be
thinner?
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Mr. Thelwall's Reply to the Calumnies, Misrepresentations, ...
Yet, after tha appearance of the twopenny-halfpenny " Observations," the party
rallied again; and, to shew the consistency and decency of their malice, deter.
Such indeed, but for the folly of these twopenny-halfpenny Observations [' 19 3.
We have now come to the second stage of the operation : the word decimal has
not been heard ; crosses of two shillings have been made to take the place of the
halfcrown, and twopenny-halfpenny stars have been superadded to the copper ...
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, 1841
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
The S.E. form (twopenny-halfpenny) is much earlier. Tupper. 'A commonplace
honest bore': Society coll.: ca. 1842—90. (Ware.) Ex the Proverbial Philosophy (
1838—42; revised and augmented up till 1867) of Martin Tupper (1810—89).
tuppy.
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Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary
... British English pronunciations of twopenny, twopence, etc., date from the
period before the introduction of decimal coinage in 1971. twopenny 'mPfini, '-ni
twopenny-halfpenny ItAPJIilhGIPJIi, Inspfini'helpani twopennyworth |tu:'pen.i.w3:
6, ...
Peter Roach, Jane Setter, John Esling, 2011
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The Victorian City: Images and Realities
... streets' Egremont Street and Nottingham Street.26 In Derby they were in
Walker Lane, 'the St Giles of Derby'.27 At Ashton-under-Lyne the twopenny
lodging-houses were in Crab Street and the twopenny-halfpenny ones in Duncan
Street.28 ...
Harold James Dyos, Michael Wolff, 1998
Whereas, Mrs. Bute consulted her in matters of taste or difficulty, admired her
poetry, and by a thousand acts of kindness and politeness, showed her
appreciation of Briggs; and if she made Firkin a twopenny-halfpenny present,
accompanied it ...
William Makepeace Thackeray
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TWOPENNY-HALFPENNY»
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twopenny-halfpenny is used in the context of the following news items.
11 words coined by Charles Dickens
Example: "To think of Jack Dawkins — lummy Jack — the Dodger — the Artful Dodger — going abroad for a common twopenny-halfpenny sneeze-box!" «The Week Magazine, Feb 13»
The King who liked to collect his own head
The twopenny-halfpenny blue has 19 (cobalt blue, cobalt violet blue, French blue, pale milky blue, and so on); the penny-halfpenny red-brown has 16, as does ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 10»
To be frank, these stamps aren't worth a damn
The simple penny red had 16 different shades, the halfpenny 18, but the ne plus ultra is the twopenny-halfpenny blue with its 19 shades, including such poetic ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 10»
