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Bent as a nine Bob note

Posted by Yorkie on November 06, 2004

i know what it means bent=crooked a nine Bob note never existed it was a ten Bob note which is really a ten shilling for some reason a shilling was know as a Bob so if u had a nine Bob note it was counterfit so it was crooked or bent this phrases was used to express a fear or something being illegal

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