11 Metaphors for pennies

This penny was the line's first earnings.

A penny saved is a penny got.

A penny would be a high estimate of the cost of that brick and of the expense of laying it, yet through the neglect of that pennyworth, £2,000 damage was done, and risk of human life was run.

Eighty pence are six and eightpence, I'll always try to think of that; Ninety pence are seven and sixpence, This will buy a beaver hat.

"His pennies are meal worms," said Doodles with a grimace.

"Penny a box," was the answer.

"If a penny saved is a penny earned, Then a penny found is a penny turned.

"Penny in pocket's a merry companion," says the old English proverb, and Sir Bale felt in better spirits and temper than he had for many a day as he replaced the guineas in the purse.

On Essex Bridge she strained her throat, And six-a-penny was her note.

No doubt we must be armed to-day, but every penny we divert from men-making and knowledge-making to armament beyond the margin of bare safety is a sacrifice of the future to the present.

And I earned my money, and the pennies are money that their people sent them.'

11 Metaphors for  pennies