Examples of 'bad penny' in a sentence

Meaning of "bad penny"

refers to a person or thing that keeps reappearing, often unwanted or unexpectedly
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  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bad, penny: A counterfeit or damaged penny.
  • A person or thing which is unpleasant, disreputable, or otherwise unwanted, especially one which repeatedly appears at inopportune times.

How to use "bad penny" in a sentence

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You are like the proverbial bad penny.
Everybody expects a bad penny to turn up sooner or later.
Features familiar as markings on bad penny.
Dropped like a bad penny into property division.
Because you keep turning up like a bad penny.
The bad penny always turns up.
He always turns up like a bad penny.
Like a bad penny you lot.
I always turn up like the proverbial bad penny.
Like the bad penny.
Guys like that keep turning up like a bad penny.
Meet the bad penny.
Bad penny is clearly me.
I turn up like a bad penny.
Our bad penny.

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You are like a bad penny.
My bad penny.
The proverbial bad penny.
A bad penny always turns up and this useless aging one returns home today.
And then you just show up like a bad penny.
Like a bad penny.
Wherever there is trouble you show up like a poxy bad penny.
I thought a bad penny like Lenny would always turn up.
Talk about a bad penny.
Bad Penny is my middle name.
Adore delano as bad penny.
A bad penny is a bad penny, no matter what.
I am like a bad penny.
But after only a few months overseas, he turned up again, just like a bad penny.
You show up like a bad penny to quote scripture to me?
I was not expecting to turn up here like the proverbial bad penny.
Well, me and the bad penny keep showing up.
The one you do not want to see keeps turning up like a bad penny.
Turn up like a bad penny after all these years?
Over the last four decades like the proverbial bad penny that he is.
He was just a bad penny that's not coming back.
My boy Johnny is a bad penny.
A bad penny always turns up . Some of you might be thinking.
If I had a nickel for every bad penny.
It 's the proverbial bad penny that keeps coming back.
Here I am again like a bad penny.
Now that 's one bad penny I never thought I would have to see again.
Guess I am just a bad penny.
Yes, the bad penny again.
He keeps turning up like a bad, bad penny.
She must be . Everybody expects a bad penny to turn up sooner or later.
Past can never be forgotten, it always turns up like a bad penny.
A bad penny always comes back, you know.
He 's throwing you away for the bad penny you are.
Prince, a bad penny always turns up.

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