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list of TGF bad pennies


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(idiomatic) A person or thing which is unpleasant, disreputable, or otherwise unwanted, especially one which repeatedly appears at inopportune times.  ]

  • 1916, Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale, ch. 4: "Felix Marchand'll have much money—bad penny as he is," continued Christine in her normal voice.
  • 1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, The Winds of Chance, ch. 17: Pierce remembered Hilda's prophecy that her indigent husband would turn up, like a bad penny.
  • 1975 June 9, R. Z. Sheppard, "Springtime for Mosley (book review)," Time: But as the perennial bad penny of British political life, he keeps turning up at embarrassing moments.
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