/ · 1894 Brewer’s · H · Halfpenny
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I am come back again, like a bad ha’penny. A facetious way of saying “More free than welcome.” As a bad ha’penny is returned to its owner, so have I returned to you, and you cannot get rid of me.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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