Meaning of twopenny-halfpenny | Babel Free

Definitions

Petty, insignificant.

dated, informal, not-comparable

Examples

“Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a two-penny-half-penny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached!”

“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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