like cheese at fourpence
Meanings
adj
- Of a person: waiting idly or timewasting.
Pronunciation
Word forms
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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