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📖 Определения и значения для слова penny

📒 a small British coin and unit of money. There are 100 pence in one pound (£1).

  • He had a few pennies in his pocket.
  • That will be 45 pence, please.
  • They cost 20p each.

📒 a British coin in use until 1971. There were twelve pennies in one shilling and twenty shillings in a pound.

📒 a cent

  • The fee ranges from a few pennies to $30 or more.

📒 all of the money

  • We collected £700 and every penny went to charity.
  • She’s on a high salary but I’m sure she deserves every penny.

📒 used to say that since you have started to do something, it is worth spending as much time or money as you need to in order to complete it

📒 no money at all

  • It didn't cost a penny.
  • He has never paid me a penny.
  • She hasn’t got a penny to her name.

📒 used to say that somebody has finally understood or realized something that they had not understood or realized before

  • I had to explain the joke to her a couple of times before the penny dropped.

📒 used to ask somebody what they are thinking about

📒 to try to spend as little money as possible

📒 a lot of money

  • I bet that cost you a pretty penny.

📒 people say ‘spend a penny’ to avoid saying ‘use the toilet’

📒 to appear when they are not welcome or not wanted, especially when this happens regularly

📒 very common and therefore not valuable

  • Teachers of history are ten a penny.
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