two ha'pennies for a penny

Meaning: (UK,idiomatic,dated,in negative constructions)Anymoneywhatsoever.1962, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs,Theatre Arts, volume46, page114:I bet you he hasn't gottwo ha'pennies for a penny— they never have, these people.1963,New Society, volume 2, page10:A lot of rowdy-dowdies, poverty stricken — blunt but true, they haven't gottwo ha'pennies for a penny— dirty, no interest in their children.1980, Robert Barltrop, Jim Wolveridge,The Muvver Tongue, page18:In that condition he hasn't got a halfpenny to scratch himself with — an irreverent departure from the pious 'not a penny to bless himself'; ortwo ha'pennies for a penny, nor a brass farthing or a penny to his name.

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