COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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count
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If you are in the market for a change of car, count your pennies and go shopping.
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Removed from the box and counted , the pennies still add up to 11.
save
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Wassail, wassail, come buy our ale. Save your pennies and don't forget the Rennies.
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Compare the prices of whole and cut-up chickens, you can usually save pennies by cutting up whole birds.
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They could save their pennies as far as this one is concerned.
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They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
not have two pennies/halfpennies/beans to rub together
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Miss Billard handed out our savings books every Wednesday, so we could watch our pennies grow.
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My pitiful reward was usually a matter of pennies .
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New York Harbor is polluted only by pennies .
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Rubberneck knew only pennies , copper coins.
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Save your pennies and don't forget the Rennies.
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Simply fill a jar with spare coins - it's amazing how quickly the pennies grow.
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The caretaker charged a few pennies , and I wandered as I liked through the house.
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What else do you use pennies for?