Bad penny what does mean

I love this type of information — how lovely it is available on the internet. They are used interchangeably but are not usually worth exactly the same. What a wonderful, thorough explanation. Dear Word Detective, Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the time, energy and obvious enthusiasum you put into this site. I could spend hours and hours reading and enjoying your work. Again, thank you, thank you thank you. I just heard the expression used on the TV show Frisky Dingo. That show, and another show called Archer, both have really great idiom.

Often heard in my growing-up years. British imperial currency was used in New Zealand before changing to metric dollars and cents, when the proverbial penny had many a last chance.

Change over day was 10th of July Even for a phone call! Bad penny is old school for someone that keeps showing up unwelcome. Thank you! Very very interesting! But those long, busy days will return. They always do. Like a bad penny whatever that means. And when they do, I need to remember that my job is not my life. Thankyou- WD- I agree with previous replies- you are an inspiration and that dearly is passed on- Your comments will help with my research for a short story competition- The story is based on a real character who used to tell us boys in the Wesley Boys Home in Mt.

Just wish I could remeber the stories but will daydream on it- Tten get on with the task- Thanks mate. I had to look it up as I was writing this. Not sure it fits exactly, because it is not turning up multiple times, unwanted…but this […]. So, the phrase really does roll outta my mouth several times a month. Then after going through different hassles, he lands in the famous battle between the Shannon and Chesapeake where he becomes a prisoner and returns after an exchange of prisoners of war.

He again reaches home, but ends up becoming a rich man, an owner of a ship and marrying his love, Mary Clay Knapp. This final return shows that he is not a bad penny; instead, he proves otherwise in the end. This is the story of a widow Danielle Mansfield who has to find means of living with her son, Ethan. She comes to know that her husband has left her high and dry after spending his entire money. She is forced to live in a cabin and hopes for the best for her son who seems to go astray.

This is a poem by Gordon H. An example is found in in Henry Fielding's translation of Aristophanes Plutus :. It was a Metaphor taken from their Money. We have a Proverb in English not unlike it, a bad Penny. What made whoever coined this proverb link bad pennies with the notion of something unwelcome returning isn't now clear.

Perhaps it was the sense that, if you clip or pass on a bad penny, it won't be long before it comes back to you in your change.