Tuppenny

Get it into your heads that no-one here votes Liebour, or cares a tuppenny toss what becomes of the post-election Liebour party. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, that's a far cry from the Shenandoah, but before I tell you about J.B. I must make one thing clear, for my own credit and good name's sake, and it's this:.! care not one tuppenny hoot about slavery, and never did. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The four novels appears to be of the original texts, with tuppenny bus fairs intact, which is something all readers should appreciate. ❋ Steve (2010)

In dese eeeknonoming hard tymez, u only kwalifiez fur deh tuppenny loan…. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It seemed incredible, like something from the tuppenny papers, like the sergeant saying my wound was "just a scratch." ❋ Unknown (2006)

Well, gee - thanks for that tuppenny psychoanalysis... ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

They couldn't give a tuppenny toss about the glorification of terrorism; if they think about it at all, they think its wrong. ❋ Rachel (2006)

At least 98% of readers don't give a tuppenny whatsit who publishes the books they read. ❋ Michael Allen (2005)

Not the tuppenny social world of present mankind: but the genuine world, full of life and eternal creative surprises, including of course destructive surprises: since destruction is part of creation. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But you're out there all the hours God sends on tuppenny-ha 'penny burglaries and car thefts. ❋ McDermid, Val (2003)

For his father had been given the tuppenny collections at chapel on Sunday. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

He did not think of canon nor curate, of doors, tuppenny nor sixpenny. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

“I don't care a tuppenny toss what Tresham says,” he said. ❋ Balogh, Mary (2001)

Only the red and green lights of the Cray gleamed, baleful stars in the darkness, picking out Antryg's nose and lips and spectacles and winking in the haphazard collection of tuppenny beads and Imperial jewels around his neck. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1988)

If he thinks I care a tuppenny damn about his stupid scholarships, he's a fool. ❋ Francis, Dick (1987)

I can't say I gave a tuppenny damn about his work, or the building of a united German state, and I couldn't for the life of me see what all this had to do with me. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1970)

Old street slang, meaning sexual intercourse while standing upright with the prostitute against a wall for a tuppenny. Today it means a [quick shag] with a prostitute for a small some of money, typically £5. [Hense], tuppenny upright, [quickie] against the wall for a small sum. ❋ Kenjar (2008)

"I'm a proud, true 5th generation Australian - my great-great-great grandfather was Cockney trash who'd cut your throat for a shilling and mated our family out of the syphilis ridden cleft of a tuppenny whore!" said the Prime Minister in Canberra. "We so lucky you people came over recently to rule us," said Jackie-Jackie, "us [blackfella] was having a real existential crisis in [self actualization] before you [YTs] came." ("Tales of the Never-Never and other Aboriginal Regrets", Lance Writes Now, a TreatyNow! publication.) ❋ Gabbro (2023)