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Pillar of the Community
United States
1801 Posts |
Pennies from heaven (old Bing Crosby song)
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Rest in Peace
United States
9104 Posts |
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
1040 Posts |
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
14454 Posts |
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
1509 Posts |
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
169 Posts |
Another day another dollar  I am so broke I can't even afford to pay attention.
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Valued Member
United States
489 Posts |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10284 Posts |
Wish I had a nickel for everytime I heard that one!( Wait I do! ) 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
592 Posts |
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
592 Posts |
"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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