"Twelve shillings for the furniture and oilcloth, one pound four and one penny for the General District and Special Rates, and one pound one and fivepence halfpenny for Poor Rate."
some twopenny-halfpenny little reporter
little villainous-looking and dirty shops [in which] an enormous business is transacted in the sale of milk for the manufacture of halfpenny ices.
Not a halfpenny the worse.
For example, whenever I went down to the village to collect my rents, I never took any strong-arm men with me to beat up my tenants: I always used the method of gentle persuasion-though, of course, I never came away with a halfpenny less than I went for!
Had very little money and one day the toll - taker at the metal bridge over the Liffey and a gossip of his laughed when I refused the halfpenny and said "no, I will go round by o 'connell bridge."
halfpenny under the hat
His opinion is not worth a halfpenny.
After that there wasn't a halfpenny left.
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