tuppenny-ha'penny

Our trains were light tuppenny-ha'penny things; now our rail facilities have gone up enormously, hundreds fold.

The Ontario View of the St. Lawrence Waterway Scheme 1928

You stand there talking about your tuppenny-ha'penny job as if it mattered a cent whether you kept it or not.

Uneasy Money 1928

One or two decent people, but the majority mid-Victorian, without a blessed notion except the price of mealies, who quarrel about nothing half the time, and talk tuppenny-ha'penny scandal the rest.

Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1907

'Well, I assure you it's when you've got me to go with you on one of your Whitechapel raids that I feel most strongly how outrageous it is that, in addition to all my other advantages, I should buy self-approval by doing some tuppenny-ha'penny service to a toiling, starving fellow-creature.'

The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907

As it is, you've made my tuppenny-ha'penny baronetcy the only bait, and that's no catch at all for an American millionairess, fishing for something big in Aristocracy Pond.

My Friend the Chauffeur Frederic [Illustrator] Lowenheim 1901

On the strength of those tuppenny-ha'penny treaties, your asses of Politicals reported the country as pacified, and the Government, being a fool, as usual, began road-makin '-- dependin' on local supply for labor.

Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

"It doesn't make a tuppenny-ha'penny bit of difference to me what has happened to them.

Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904