hap

do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar

proverb Do not ruin something simply to avoid some minor difficulty, inconvenience, or expense. "Ship" is thought to be a dialectical pronunciation of "sheep," and a "ha'porth" is a "halfpennyworth." Tar was used to protect sheep skin from flies (and thereby illness and death), so not having enough tar would contribute to the death of the sheep. You know your mom is going to be offended, so please call her before the dinner party—do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
See also: not, of, ship, spoil, tar

the haps

slang Happenings; events; goings-on. What's the haps these days? I've been out of town for a while.
See also: hap

What's the haps?

slang What's happening? What's new? Used as an informal greeting. ("Haps" is a shortening of "happening.") Hey, Tony, what's the haps? Long time no see! What's the haps, everyone? You all have a good weekend?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

down with the haps

mod. knowing what’s happening; comfortable with what’s happening. (Streets.) Tell me what’s going on! I gotta be down with the haps.
See also: down, hap

haps

n. things that are happening; events. (Streets.) Come in and tell me the haps.
See also: hap
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar
  • porth
  • spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar
  • spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
  • spoil the ship for a ha'porth/ha'penny-worth of tar
  • teach a man to fish
  • for want of a nail
  • For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse ...
  • it takes a village
  • village
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Scanning electron microscopy instrument has been used to obtain the morphology of HAP. The SEM images of the HAP in the range microparticle are shown in Figs.
Figure 1(a) represents the FTIR spectrum of HAP. The characteristic peaks appeared at and 565 [cm.sup.-1], 473 [cm.sup.-1] and 945 [cm.sup.-1] depicts the phosphate groups.
Ceramic nanofillers such as HAp do not directly contribute to the [T.sub.g] value of the polymer matrix, but the interaction of the polymer chains with the surface of the particles can drastically alter the chain kinetics and mobility in the region surrounding the particle due to the presence of the interface.
In our previous papers we showed that the use of PDMS as an interlayer between a HAp coating and a substrate may improve the delamination of HAp layers even when the substrate is rough [18, 20].
Conclusion: The frequency of HAP in Medical ICU of our hospital is 88 out of 346 (25.4%).
EPA established organic HAP and VOC content limits for 57 specialty coating categories, and also required specialty coating operations to meet the same inorganic HAP control requirements as for primers and topcoats.
He said that an International HAP Exhibition will be held in Pakistan to exhibit the work of Pakistani artisans.
HAP stem cells were directed to differentiate to cardiac muscle cells in large numbers in culture by the addition of the common drug isoproterenol.