- The
British threepence piece,
usually simply known as a threepence, thruppence, or
thruppenny bit, was a
denomination of
sterling coinage worth 1⁄80 of...
- concluded, "But
little can
spoil the
sheer beauty of 'You Made Me Feel', '
Thrupenny Tears' or
alert pop of 'Obscurity Knocks' and 'Best Man's Fall'. A cherry...
-
previously found on the
British one-penny coin and on the
predecimal thrupenny bit; this has
since been
replaced by a
section of the
Royal Arms of the...
-
Speech Debelle - "Blaze Up a Fire" (from
Freedom of Speech)
Colossus – "
Thrupenny Bits" (from "West Oaktown") (OmRecords 2002 –
pseudonym Hylton Smythe)...
- not used for
modern coins. In
older terms like two-bob bit (2/-) and
thrupenny bit (3d), the word bit had
common usage before decimalisation similar...
- is Poll Uain (Lambs' Hole)
which is also
known as the
Horse Pool. The
Thrupenny Pool was
named after the
price of
admission (3d. in pre-decimal currency)...
- temper,
throw a
tantrum thruppennies (rhyming slang) ****/**** (from
thrupenny bits,
obsolete British coin)
tinned canned as in "tinned soup" or "a tin...
- then my name isn't Ena
Sharples – from what I hear, it's two
clogs to a
thrupenny bit that she'll
electrocute 'erself with 'er own 'airdryer." This sketch's...
