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penny Идиома

a penny for your thoughts

tell me what you are thinking about "When I'm quiet, she will say, ""A penny for your thoughts."""

a penny pincher

a person who spends carefully, a thrifty person He used to be a penny pincher, but now he spends freely.

a pretty penny

a lot of money, a high price I bet she paid a pretty penny for that coat. It looks expensive.

cost a pretty penny

cost a lot of money, had a high price Elvis bought a new pink Cadillac. I bet that cost a pretty penny.

penny for one

tell someone what you are thinking about "I will give you a penny for your thoughts", I said to my friend who was looking out of the window.

penny for your thoughts

(See a penny for your thoughts)

penny pincher

(See a penny pincher)

penny-wise and pound foolish

wise or careful in small things to the costly neglect of important things My friend is penny-wise and pound foolish and economizes on small things but wastes all of his money on big things.

pretty penny

(See cost a pretty penny)

apenny dip

London cockney rhyming slang for ship

penny-wise and pound-foolish

Idiom(s): penny-wise and pound-foolish

Theme: FOOLISHNESS

A proverb meaning that it is foolish to lose a lot of money to save a little money. (Fixed order.)
• Sally shops very carefully to save a few cents on food, then charges the food to a charge card that costs a lot in annual interest. That's being pennywise and pound-foolish.
• John drives thirty miles to buy gas for three cents a gallon less than it costs here. He's really penny-wise and pound-foolish.

cut sb off without a penny

Idiom(s): cut sb off without a penny

Theme: IGNORE

to end someone's allowance; to fail to leave someone money in one's will.
• Mr. and Mrs. Franklin cut their son off without a penny after he quit school.
• They cut off both of their sons without a penny.
• We learned, when Uncle Sam's will was read, that he cut off his own flesh and blood without a penny.

A penny saved is a penny earned

Idiom(s): A penny saved is a penny earned

Theme: THRIFT

A proverb meaning that money saved through thrift is the same as money earned by employment. (Sometimes used to explain stinginess.)
• "I didn't want to pay that much for the book," said Mary. "After all, a penny saved is a penny earned."
• Bob put his money in a new bank that pays more interest than his old bank, saying, "A penny saved is a penny earned."

In for a penny, in for a pound.

If you start something, it's better to spend the time or money necessary to complete it.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Refers to a person who is careful about spending small amounts of money, but not careful about spending large amounts of money.

In for a penny, in for a pound

If something is worth doing then it is a case of in for a penny, in for a pound, which means that when gambling or taking a chance, you might as well go the whole way and take all the risks, not just some.

Penny ante

(USA) Something that is very unimportant is penny ante.

Penny wise, pound foolish

Someone who is penny wise, pound foolish can be very careful or mean with small amounts of money, yet wasteful and extravagant with large sums.

Spend a penny

(UK) This is a euphemistic idiom meaning to go to the toilet.

Ten a penny

(UK) If something is ten a penny, it is very common. ("Two a penny" is also used.)

The penny dropped

When the penny drops, someone belatedly understands something that everyone else has long since understood.

Turn up like a bad penny

If someone turns up like a bad penny, they go somewhere where they are not wanted.

penny for one's thoughts|penny|thought|thoughts

Please tell me what you are thinking about; what's your daydream. "A penny for your thoughts!" he exclaimed.

penny wise and pound foolish|foolish|penny|penny w

Wise or careful in small things but not careful enough in important things.

A proverb. Mr. Smith's fence is rotting and falling down because he wouldn't spend money to paint it. He is penny wise and pound foolish.

penny-pincher|penny|pincher

n., informal A stingy or selfish person; miser. He spent so little money that he began to get the name of a penny-pincher. -

penny-pinching|penny|pinching

adj. or n., informal Bob saved enough money by penny-pinching to buy a bicycle.

pinch pennies|pennies|penny|pinch

v. phr., informal Not spend a penny more than necessary; be very saving or thrifty. When Tom and Mary were saving money to buy a house, they had to pinch pennies. -

pretty penny|penny|pretty

n. phr. A large amount of money. Their new house is so big and modern that we're sure it must have cost them a pretty penny.

turn an honest penny|honest penny|penny|turn

v. phr. To realize a good profit. Tom turned an honest penny in the soybean trading business.
Compare: PRETTY PENNY.

penny

penny
In addition to the idioms beginning with penny, also see in for a penny, in for a pound; pinch pennies; pretty penny, a; turn up.
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- pennies from heaven
- penny for your thoughts, a
- penny pincher
- penny saved is a penny earned, a
- penny-wise
- penny wise and pound foolish

penny for your thoughts, a

penny for your thoughts, a
What are you thinking about? For example, You've been awfully quiet—a penny for your thoughts. This expression dates from the 1500s and was in John Heywood's 1546 collection of proverbs.

penny saved is a penny earned, a

penny saved is a penny earned, a
What one does not spend, one will have. This maxim for thrift is so familiar that it often appears in shortened form, as in Although they can afford to buy a house right now, they're putting it off, on the principle of “a penny saved.” It appeared in slightly different form in George Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs (1640). Whether or not it originally suggested that savings earn interest is not known.

penny wise and pound foolish

penny wise and pound foolish
Stingy about small expenditures and extravagant with large ones, as in Dean clips all the coupons for supermarket bargains but insists on going to the best restaurants—penny wise and pound foolish. This phrase alludes to British currency, in which a pound was once worth 240 pennies, or pence, and is now worth 100 pence. The phrase is also occasionally used for being very careful about unimportant matters and careless about important ones. It was used in this way by Joseph Addison in The Spectator (1712): “A woman who will give up herself to a man in marriage where there is the least Room for such an apprehension ... may very properly be accused ... of being penny wise and pound foolish.” [c. 1600]

penny-wise

penny-wise
penny-wise and pound-foolish
careful or thrifty in small matters but careless or wasteful in major ones

pretty penny, a

pretty penny, a
A considerable sum of money, as in That fur coat must have cost a pretty penny. [Early 1700s]