tenpence to the shilling

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短语
  1. Mentally deficient. UK,dated,slang
    — I knew that chap; but he never was more nor tenpence to the shilling. He was one of the men, we say, who fell out of his cradle and knocked his head.

词源

The British shilling was worth twelve pence, so tenpence would be a deficient exchange.
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