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Significados de two-a-penny en inglés

Of trifling worth.

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        Examples for "sixpenny"
        Examples for "sixpenny"
        1
        But the lining only holds two more knobs than the sixpenny ones.
        The Splendid Folly
        2
        There are two hundred and fifty-one shilling admissions and fifty-two sixpenny ones.
        The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story
        3
        Today, as he entered, he trod on the pile of sixpenny reprints.
        The Longest Journey
        4
        She then ran rather than walked in the direction of the sixpenny-halfpenny shop.
        The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens
        5
        The present hidden under the paper wrapper was a sixpenny picture-book.
        The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story
        1
        That's young Annesley, the son of a twopenny-halfpenny parson down in Hertfordshire.
        Mr. Scarborough's Family
        2
        All that is twopenny-halfpenny pride, which should be thrown to the winds.
        He Knew He Was Right
        3
        One or two clowns sat at some distance, drinking their twopenny ale.
        Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
        4
        Well, twopenny clerks do keep up a pretty scratch and no mistake.
        Broken to the Plow / A Novel
        5
        Was Mrs. Flanders's twopenny-halfpenny brooch for ever part of the rich accumulation?
        Jacob's Room
        1
        He got up, fumbling for his threepenny-piece, but failed to find it.
        Far Above Rubies
        2
        A second threepenny-piece will overlap the edge of the larger coin.
        Amusements in Mathematics
        3
        Indeed, threepenny-bits had practically vanished from circulation in the Five Towns.
        The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
        4
        Thomas Chadwick might have flung the threepenny bit into the road.
        The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
        5
        But nothing could convince the doctor to surrender the threepenny bit.
        The tower, the zoo and the tortoise
        1
        Let him think you didn't care a tuppeny.
        The Honorable Percival
        2
        The arrogance of the tuppeny Voltaires in our broadcasting media has gone unchallenged for far too long.
        The Irish Times
        3
        "Yer tell'd me as how the sausingers wur sixpence," I sed; "an' the slices o' bread ud cut off a tuppeny loaf."
        A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucesters...
        1
        That's young Annesley, the son of a twopenny-halfpenny parson down in Hertfordshire.
        Mr. Scarborough's Family
        2
        All that is twopenny-halfpenny pride, which should be thrown to the winds.
        He Knew He Was Right
        3
        Was Mrs. Flanders's twopenny-halfpenny brooch for ever part of the rich accumulation?
        Jacob's Room
        4
        Can you fancy a twopenny-halfpenny baroness of King Francis's time patronising Bayard?
        The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
        5
        No man in his senses would place a diamond inside a twopenny-halfpenny puzzle box.
        The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
        Uso de two-a-penny en inglés
        1
        Mountain safety people you would love to come across on a night out are two-a-penny.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Losers medals are two-a-penny-down at Tom Clifford Park.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Endless runners are two-a-penny these days.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Embellished fabrics are two-a-penny on the high street these days, but for the most part, they look it.
        The Guardian
        5
        Hurling heroes are two-a-penny in Birr and if Mullins has joined their ranks, he has done so reluctantly.
        The Irish Times
        6
        Promiscuous poets are two-a-penny, though.
        Reuters
        7
        You cannot get another father, but he would hardly want to; as for wives, they are two-a-penny with Thomas More.
        Wolf hall