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www0935
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 Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:12 am Post subject: If you are in for a penny, you are in for a pound. |
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| Please help paraphrase this sentence, "If you are in for a penny, you are in for a pound." Many thanks. |
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Bluegum
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| It's an idiomatic saying that can't really be paraphrased, but it is used to mean you can't be half committed, you must be take all the consequences. A penny is a small unit of money, a pound a large one. |
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