noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
not cost (sb) a penny (= cost nothing )
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Using the Internet, you can make phone calls that don’t cost a penny.
penny ante
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penny ante schemes to make money
penny whistle
ten pence/50-cent etc piece
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Have you change for a 50-cent piece?
turned up like...bad penny (= suddenly appeared )
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Sure enough, Steve turned up like the proverbial bad penny .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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I took long breaks away from training and would then reappear like the proverbial bad penny , as if I had never been away.
pretty
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At one time, Mr Jarvis the coalman paid a pretty penny just to park his waggons there.
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It had, whatever way, and all night long for all she knew, to amount to a pretty penny .
single
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And Moran didn't cost them a single penny !
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Not a single penny , I assure you.
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His Department has not allocated a single penny to that programme for 1992-93.
■ NOUN
farthing
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The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884.
loafer
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Mrs Halloran was yard monitor and her penny loafers were next to him.
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The other girls are carrying purses and wearing seersucker and madras cotton blouses or printed cotton dresses and penny loafers .
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Old silver heels have been abandoned under a work table in favor of scruffy penny loafers .
■ VERB
cost
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It won't cost you a penny .
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Moira had died before she'd cost anyone a penny .
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The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged.
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And Moran didn't cost them a single penny !
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Oestrogen makes women feel great and it shouldn't cost them a penny .
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Warm yourself by the fireside of pure genius and it won't cost you a penny .
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She wouldn't cost you a penny .
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That will add 33% to its value without costing you a penny extra.
earn
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She was paid as much as her male colleagues, and earned every penny .
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For instance, what if Bozo, Inc., suffers through a recession and earns just one penny ?
give
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Corbett gave a child a penny to hold the horses and they went into the priest's house.
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My parents never gave me a penny after I turned sixteen.
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Britain is not giving a penny , not even a penny black!
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I was living with Desmond and I used to have to give him every goddamn penny .
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The baby's two-year-old sister gave her the penny to cheer her up because she was crying.
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Will talked with him for a few minutes, then gave him a penny .
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She'd give away her last penny .
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She has said she will not give a penny until she is entirely satisfied the unit will go ahead as planned.
pay
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No one earning less than £21,000 will pay a penny more under us.
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If you were caught speaking in vernacular you paid a penny fine.
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It was a wine that they paid about a penny or twopence a glass for.
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His argumentative gifts as a popular orator attracted crowds willing to pay a penny or two to hear him.
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Dad doesn't have to pay another penny to Josie.
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In fact, you won't have to pay a penny until you've studied your policy in depth.
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They'd both been working for nearly two years, and all that time they hadn't been paid a penny .
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Who will bear responsibility for paying every penny of savings gained by top people?
put
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The Strood delegate suggested that this would put a penny on the rates, but the Rochester delegate rejected the resolution.
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His hair was so flat on top, Petey wanted to put a penny on it.
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I didn't put my penny in yesterday.
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A charity such as ours must constantly strive for greater efficiency, to put every penny of your subscription to good use.
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You know, where you put a penny by each week in case your nipper gets sick and dies.
receive
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A cap like a puddle now lies at his feet, to receive the odd penny .
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She had been working every day for over a month, and had not received a penny for her labour.
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The firm's owner assured them that he had never received a penny and was paying a large rent for his premises.
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And they haven't received a penny in compensation.
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And she adds: But Alan Govier from Oxford hasn't received a penny in pension payments.
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He says his company paid seventy eight thousand pounds to promoters, and has never received a penny in refunds.
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Neither he nor Diana receives a penny from the Civil List.
spend
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Weeks she'd been badly, and he wouldn't hear of spending a penny on a doctor.
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Smart public managers spend every penny of every line item, whether they need to or not.
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Raising cash to spend a penny A CO-OPERATIVE of local councils could help reopen Langbaurgh's public toilets, a councillor claims.
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Of course, I spent every penny anyway.
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You do not spend a penny .
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Me and you and Denver gon na spend every penny of it.
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My father said not to spend a penny more than I need.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bad penny
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I took long breaks away from training and would then reappear like the proverbial bad penny, as if I had never been away.
be ten a penny
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Anyway, they would fall in love with these Counts who were ten a penny and even pay for their drinks.
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Colleagues, acquaintances - they are ten a penny.
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Dallams were ten a penny in the backstreets of Frizingley.
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Teachers of history are ten a penny, and out-of-work teachers of history are twenty a penny.
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These rings are ten a penny.
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Uncritical testimonials to the postmodern's attractions are ten a penny, and conservative denunciations thereof not much scarcer.
cost a pretty penny
give or take a few minutes/a penny/a mile etc
not have two pennies/halfpennies/beans to rub together
spend a penny
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My father said not to spend a penny more than I need.
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Raising cash to spend a penny A CO-OPERATIVE of local councils could help reopen Langbaurgh's public toilets, a councillor claims.
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Weeks she'd been badly, and he wouldn't hear of spending a penny on a doctor.
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You do not spend a penny.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny .
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Have them drop water on the penny until the water spills off.
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His mere re-election can be relied on to revive the market and solve those problems - without costing the public purse one penny .
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I placed the parcels on the table and Mrs Lewis gave me a piece of cake and a penny .
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Oh yes, she had plenty of money of her own, but he wouldn't touch a penny of that.
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The Strood delegate suggested that this would put a penny on the rates, but the Rochester delegate rejected the resolution.
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Who will bear responsibility for paying every penny of savings gained by top people?