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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Some can also be "Penny wise and Pound foolish".
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Show me the money. (Jerry Maguire)
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Some can also be "Penny wise and Pound foolish".
Also, used to be Penny wise and Dollar foolish but so many complain we really have cents, not pennies. For some reason I keep thinking of where I heard "Shave and a Haircut, 2 bits" SAP: those are really interesting. Where did you find that info? |
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United States
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''A Dollar to donuts''sometime in the 60's gasman96
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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"Every coin has two sides"  actually, every coin has three, obverse, reverse and edge
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pennies from heaven (old Bing Crosby song)
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Rest in Peace
United States
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drop a dime (in a pay phone to report someone to the police)
watch the pennies and the pounds will watch themselves
a dime a dozen (plentiful)
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Don't know about famous, but from the Simpsons:
Mr Burns: I have won every coin, yet I feel strangely empty inside. Oh, there's another coin. That should do it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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he can squeeze a nickel so hard that the Indian rides the buffalo <--One of my favorites
he squeezes a quarter so tight the eagle screams
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Pillar of the Community
Thailand
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One of my favourites:
Don't spoil the ship (or sheep) for a ha'porth of tar.
Ha'porth is a halfpenny worth. The usual reference is to a ship that may sink because of penny-pinching. The more unusual reference to the sheep is that cuts and sores on sheep were treated with a dollop of tar to prevent infection, to lose one is another example of penny-pinching.
Cockney rhyming slang:
"I'm off for a thrupenny bit" (threepenny).
Refering to the act of going to the toilet. I'll leave it to you to work it out.
Edited by thai-vic
03/07/2011 12:24 am
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Valued Member
South Africa
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Another day another dollar I am so broke I can't even afford to pay attention. |
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United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Wish I had a nickel for everytime I heard that one!( Wait I do! ) 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let...fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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"God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country." - Mark Twain
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