Re: Break a sou
- From: R H Draney <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Mar 2007 08:02:02 -0700
Marius Hancu filted:
Hello:
What would "break a sou/(also 'cent', I guess)," mean here?
Would that be "earn some serious money?"
"Break" in connection with a denomination of money means to make change for it
in smaller pieces...you'll hear it when someone's paying a small amount and
laments "I don't have anything smaller; I'll have to break a twenty"....
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I think I liked Cronstadt's joint best of all, perhaps because he
chalked the meal up on the wall each time. Not that it eased my
conscience to see what I owed him, because I had no intention of
paying him back nor had he any il lusions about being requited. No, it
was the odd numbers which intrigued me. He used to figure it out to
the last centime. If I was to pay in full I would have had to break a
sou.
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, p.
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.....r
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"You got Schadenfreude on my Weltanschauung!"
"You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!"
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