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turn up like a bad penny



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Idioms and Phrases

see turn up , def. 3.
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Example Sentences

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Aside from providing us with a few enduring expressions — a penny for your thoughts, in for a penny, turn up like a bad penny, not worth a red cent, penny-ante, and so on — the coin by itself is close to useless.

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You won’t be cross if I turn up like a bad penny?

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Whenever we miss you we shall know that, sooner or later, you will turn up, like a bad penny.

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"He'll turn up like a bad penny some day," he thought now, smiling a little.

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You always turn up like a bad penny....

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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