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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 168 . The proverb today is a bad penny
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always turns up. Okay . Let's take a look at the note here. You may hear this proverb
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reworded as a or the bad penny always comes back. Okay. So you get hear it as the
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bad, or a bad penny always comes back or the bad penny always comes back or the bad
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penny also turns up. So both of them could either take an "a" or" the. " All right . Let's
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continue. This proverb basically means that an unpleasant unwanted or bad
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person or thing usually will appear or come back, especially at the most
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inappropriate times or times when you kind of wish they didn't. All right. Let's
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go. Let's continue here. The proverb dates back to the Middle Ages and even in
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Roman times. Yeah . I heard that in Roman times when they started to run out of you know,
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money basically, sometimes they were not putting all the right metal into, into
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the coins that they were supposed to be you know whether their value of whether they
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were silver a gold or or or maybe you know copper or whatever it was that they
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they were made out of. And then after some time they started to what we call
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'coin clipping. " So let's continue there. After a while some coins were considered
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to be bad because they were debased by coin clipping. So basically even though
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it says this amount of it a little piece of the coin was missing so it maybe
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really didn't have the value that was supposed to be on it or the face value.
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Small pieces or edges of coins were cut off and after you know after a long time
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maybe they were collected and probably sold for scrap metal. You know, after a
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lot of these little pieces were collected they might have been sold for
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scrap metal , so that somebody can make some extra money. I guess. A bad penny by
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itself can also refer to a worthless or disreputable person. Okay.
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Let's continue. All right. We have a couple of examples and I think these are both a/b
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parts. So example number one. I thought that annoying customer must have moved
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away I didn't see him for a long time. All right. That's what A said. And B said
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you know , how it goes a bad penny will always show up. So they always come back
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again. Or number two here. I thought Jane didn't invite her
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good-for-nothing ex-husband. Yeah . We often, we often use that as like an adjective .
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Somebody is a good for nothing. So yeah basically they're not a very productive
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person or you know maybe they have a lot of bad qualities. To the wedding , and B
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answers nobody invited him but it is not surprising he found out and came anyway.
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A bad penny always turns up. Okay. So this is the way you may hear it used. Anyway, I
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hope you got it . I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time . Bye -bye.