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like cheese at fourpence

Of a person, to be waiting idly or timewasting.

Etymology:

  • From the mill towns of Lancashire, where fourpence was considered expensive for cheese and hence cheese for sale at that price would not be bought.
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Submitted on July 07, 2010

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مثل الجبن عند أربعة بنسات

kuin juusto neljällä pennillä

som ost vid fyrkant

像四便士的奶酪

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