Shilling Phrases

Phrases

• 1001 Cleans a Big, Big Carpet for Less than Half a Crown (1001 advertising slogan)
• A glass and a half in every half pound (Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A penny saved is a penny earned
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
• Bad penny
• Click here for Royal Crown Cola (Royal Crown Cola advertising slogan)
• Coin a phrase
• Coin of the realm
• Cost a pretty penny
• Crown Jewels
• Crown privilege
• Cut off without a penny
• Earn an honest penny
• Half A Sixpence (Tommy Steele song)
• Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle (line from nursery rhyme)
• In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs (Beatles song lyric)
• In for a penny in for a pound
• Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jewel in the crown
• Not a penny to bless yourself with,
• Not many of them to the pound
• Not the full shilling
• Nothing over sixpence (Woolworths advertising slogan)
• Penny Lane (Beatles song)
• Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes (Beatles song lyric)
• Penny for your thoughts
• Penny pinching
• Penny wise, pound foolish
• Pink pound
• Pound for pound
• Pound of flesh
• Pound the pavement
• Pretty penny
• See a penny and pick it up
• Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sixpence worth of Heaven (Cadbury's Flake advertising slogan)
• Solo pound
• Spend a penny
• Take the king's shilling
• Take the shilling
• Ten a penny
• The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen movie)
• The other side of the coin
• The penny drops
• The pound in your pocket
• Toss up (flip a coin to decide on something)
• Turns on a sixpence
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown