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penny

A penny is a small coin of little value; 100 pennies (or 100 pence) make a pound, a dollar, a euro, etc. This sweet only costs a penny. If you have two pennies, you have two pence.

penny

a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit

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Simple sentences

Tom robbed me of every penny I had.
A penny for your thoughts.
I bet Dave paid a pretty penny for his new car.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
A penny saved is a penny taxed.
His ideas never earned him a single penny.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
A penny spent is often more useful than one saved.
The penny eventually dropped!
Ill-gotten gains are short-lived. The only way to make real money is to earn every penny.
He robbed me of every penny I had.
Tom doesn't have a penny to his name.
I don't have a penny to my name.
He doesn't even have a penny in his pocket.
Penny saved is a penny got.
It cost us a pretty penny to fix the car.

Movie subtitles

Now watch what happens to this penny when I drop it in the acid.
The green colour is copper coming from the penny and a noxious fume is being emitted.
Must've cost a pretty penny to make that happen.
Sutton, I'm sure you understand that every penny I pour into my assistant's salary is a penny less I have to spend on the image, which is what sells this magazine.
Must be worth a pretty penny.
I only have a penny and I beg you once again to give me a little ammount of money.
HE WOULDN'T GET A PENNY FROM ME! BUT YOU.
I haven't a penny to my name.
As long as I've a penny to my name, they will not be sold!
Why you scum. This mine was drained to the penny 30 years ago.
Not a penny.
The boss thinks of everything and takes care of everything and demands not a penny for himself of all the loot.
A pretty penny!
I realize it's a penny here and there, but look at me.
They wont get one penny out of me.
It's worth every penny he gets.
I've staked my last penny on this pipe dream of yours.
Every penny we've got in the world is tied up in this.
I see. You're still sticking to your penny novelette spy story.
You've appropriated to the last penny.
Not one penny will you get.
We're all so fond of her here, we just call her Penny.
Penny, dear.
Penny.
EVERY LAST PENNY WILL BE THERE.
Penny ante?
You take my last penny and call it a trifle.
You don't think we're after that penny-ante reward?
We worth every penny he gets.
And the jaguar would not have a penny.
You're still sticking to your penny novelette spy story.
She wrings every last penny out of second-rate geishas like us.
But he hasn't got a penny now.
Oh, penny-a-point Barker.
Every silver penny.
They got a pretty penny.
So, there I was in Paris. without a penny in my pocket and a Russian countess on my hands.
I just found out that I haven't a penny, and, well, I'm taking some of the girls to lunch. Oh!

News and current affairs

Every penny invested in Africa counts today and to secure Africa's future.
Thus, it is now subject to the discourse of economic orthodoxy, which, in insisting that all debts be paid to the penny, ignores that public spending is also an engine of growth.
The 1990's saw an unprecedented rise in the number of quarters in which earnings beat analysts' estimates by a penny a share, suggesting that more irregularities could be discovered.
But the fact that earnings beat estimates by a penny a share every quarter is itself only a sign of quarter-to-quarter manipulations of earnings, not of their wholesale fabrication.
Specifically, the Commission calls for rich countries to put aside one tenth of one percent of their gross national product - or just one penny out of every ten dollars of income - on behalf of health services for the world's poor.
A penny on ten dollars would make historic breakthroughs in health; another penny on ten dollars could address the critical needs in education as well.
And, as I have argued elsewhere, governments have long been penny-wise and pound-foolish to provide large-denomination notes, given that a large share are used in the underground economy and to finance illegal activities.
According to the Zimbabwean finance minister, Tendai Biti, four years after the military took over the diamond fields, the national treasury has received not one penny of royalties from the sale of Marange diamonds.
Provided we do not deceive ourselves about where real power lies, let presidents and parliaments be three a penny if that is what makes people feel good about themselves.
This plan would allow us to bail out good banks and allow bad banks to fail - without costing the taxpayer a penny.
The Campaign for Fair Food's agenda is to persuade every major tomato purchaser to sign on to the Fair Food Program, which, for a small premium - a penny per pound - changes the lives of workers and their families' substantially.

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