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tuppenny ha'penny; tuppenny halfpenny; twopenny-halfpenny
adjective
of little worth; insignificant UK, 1909- MIAMI: Eddy Bunden ‘as opened a club on my manor?! TREVOR: It’s a tuppenny ‘a’penny gaff, Miami, full of twelve-year-olds smokin’ waccy baccy. — Bernard Dempsey and Kevin McNally, Lock, Stock ... and Two Hundred Smoking Kalashnikovs, p. 104, 2000
- [W]e want a proper writer to do our story. Not some twopenny-halfpenny hack. — Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers, p. 110, 2001
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