"Not a brass farthing" nghĩa là gì?

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"Not a brass farthing" -> nghĩa là rất ít tiền, không một hào dính túi. 

Ví dụ

Over the period of about three months, in the knowledge he had lost his parents and been left their life savings, you systematically (có hệ thống) divested (tước đoạt) him of all that money. Not a brass farthing has been paid back to him.

Sinn Féin economy spokesman Arthur Morgan asked how the Government could find billions to bail out (trợ cấp) banks and property developers, when there was not a brass farthing for schools or the elderly.

With a wife and four sons to support, I'd always spent to the very limit of my income - and often far beyond - with not a brass farthing left over for savings.

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