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Meanings of bad penny in английском

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Usage of bad penny in английском
1
That loaf, however, like the proverbial bad penny, turned up for months.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
2
I didn't think you'd be turning up again, like a bad penny.
For the love of mike
3
And now I am to go back to Kingthorpe as a bad penny.
The Golden Calf
4
Or is bad penny or yesterday's chewing gum a better name?
Archer’s Goon
5
There is not a bad penny in all those millions.
Brewster's Millions
6
I shall turn up again like the proverbial bad penny.
The Hermit of Far End
7
Yes, he told me you'd be turning up again like the proverbial bad penny.
The last illusion
8
Like a bad penny, he returned as he was before.
The Adventures of a Forty-niner / An Historic Description of Cal...
9
And Julian joked with her about that musty proverb "a bad penny."
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
10
I have turned up again, like a bad penny.
The Cryptogram: A Story of Northwest Canada
11
Whatever Lexi did these days, her cousin seemed to show up like a bad penny.
Mistress of the game
12
You are like a bad penny, Teddy Burke.
Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83...
13
Like a bad penny that kept turning up.
Bungalow 2
14
Back like a bad penny, are ye?
Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow
15
Then Robert showed up like a bad penny, announcing that they were kicking him out of St. Bede's.
Mistress of the game
16
Only when Winifred recounted how little Publius had given his bad penny to a beggar, did he brighten up.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
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