twopenny-halfpenny

English

twopenny-halfpenny (not comparable)

Petty, insignificant.
- 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter I, in Heart of Darkness:
  Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a two-penny-half-penny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached!
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter L, in The Moon and Sixpence. A Novel, London: William Heinemann, OCLC 563525353; The Moon and Sixpence, 1st American edition, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers by arrangement with George H. Doran Company, 1919, OCLC 365836, page 264:
  Poor devil, he's gone to the dogs altogether. He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria—sanitary officer or something like that. I'm told he lives with an ugly old Greek woman and has half a dozen scrofulous kids.

单词	twopenny-halfpenny
释义	twopenny-halfpenny English Alternative forms two-penny-half-penny Pronunciation IPA^(key): /ˌtʌpni ˈheɪpni/ Adjective twopenny-halfpenny (not comparable) Petty, insignificant. 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter I, in Heart of Darkness: Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a two-penny-half-penny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached! 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter L, in The Moon and Sixpence. A Novel, London: William Heinemann, OCLC 563525353; The Moon and Sixpence, 1st American edition, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers by arrangement with George H. Doran Company, 1919, OCLC 365836, page 264: Poor devil, he's gone to the dogs altogether. He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria—sanitary officer or something like that. I'm told he lives with an ugly old Greek woman and has half a dozen scrofulous kids.
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