tuppence-ha'penny

Similarly, some writers do occasionally, through an act of God, make more than tuppence-ha'penny out of something they've written.

Deja read Michael Allen 2005

If the answer is "Yes," then the mark is worth a shilling; if the answer is that it will only buy a bag of about a fifth of the English size, then the mark is worth tuppence-ha'penny.

If I May 1919

If a mark is regarded as tuppence-ha'penny, everything is extraordinarily cheap; much cheaper than in England.

If I May 1919

The mark, we are told, is now worth tuppence-ha'penny.

If I May 1919

Does it say contemptuously, "Oh, I should think about tuppence-ha'penny, and serve 'em dashed well right for losing the war"?

If I May 1919

The last words that reached me were "Fivepence ... tuppence-ha'penny;" but still, when I could no longer catch any details at all, the voices continued to sound pleasantly good-tempered.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

Tea tuppence-ha'penny, and that's fivepence - ha'penny, and a ha'penny for wood, and tuppence-ha'penny for a loaf makes eightpence-ha'penny.

Fan : the story of a young girl's life 1881

I don't want them using some tuppence-ha'penny rubbish web client.

Mobile Industry Review 2008

The short history of the post-war welfare state is that you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life: The people can elect "conservatives," as the Germans have done and the British are about to do, and the Left is mostly relaxed about it because, in all but exceptional cases (Thatcher), they fulfill the same function in the system as the first-year boys at wintry English boarding schools who, for tuppence-ha'penny or some such, would agree to go and warm the seat in the unheated lavatories until the prefects strolled in and took their rightful place.

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