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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010Hiaasen: you're one bent penny
Hello: "You're one bent penny" is this "You're crazy?" ---- [Rolvaag is a detective, who keeps seven-foot pythons at home, which his boss Gallo thinks it's crazy. Rolvaag has just bought mice to feed the pythons and left them in his car, outside the police station.] Gallo said he knew a topless dancer in Oakland Park who would be thrilled to have the snakes for her stage act. "She'd give 'em a good home, too. The kind we all dream about." "Thanks anyway." Rolvaag stood up. "I'd better get going before those damn rodents hot-wire my car." "You're one bent penny," Gallo said, not unkindly. Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip, p. 39 ---- -- Thanks. Marius Hancu Marius Hancu wrote:: > "You're one bent penny" > is this [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip, p. 39 > ---- He said it kindly, so "eccentric" or "wigged-out" might be a better choice. > > "You're one bent penny" > > is this [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > He said it kindly, so "eccentric" or "wigged-out" might be a better > choice. OK. Still "wigged out" is given as "crazy, upset, mentally discomposed" in M-W U. Thank you both. Marius Hancu >Hello: > >"You're one bent penny" >is this >"You're crazy?" Not so much crazy as odd, IMO.  SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs, An American who lives near Dublin, Ireland and usually spells in BrE > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip, p. 39 Others have said that it means "crazy" or "odd", but the expression I'm familiar with is "*worthless* as a bent penny". A penny doesn't really buy much, but it's worth picking up if you find one on the street, because you could at least (at one time), use it in a gumball machine. A bent penny isn't even worth that much. SignatureEvan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------ HP Laboratories |"Are you okay?" 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 | Palo Alto, CA 94304 |"I'm made of felt....Add by dose |cubs off." kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com (650)857-7572 http://www.kirshenbaum.net/ |
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