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单词 a penny in the forehead
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a penny in the forehead
c. a penny in the forehead and variants: with allusion to a trick in which play is made of the way a cold coin pressed firmly on the forehead of the victim may still be felt by him or her as if it were there after its surreptitious removal. Obsolete.
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1602 N. Breton Olde Mad-cappes New Gally-mawfrey sig. B2v I loue no leere, nor winke, nor wily looke, But straight fore-right, a penny in my face.
1607 E. Sharpham Cupids Whirligig sig. I4 Holde vp your head Tobias, and looke and you can see a penny in my browe.
1637 J. Day New Spring of Divine Poetrie 34 They wagge their sporting fingers, and present A penny in the forehead, or some pap, To win the Children to the Mothers lap.
1659 T. Burton Diary 9 Mar. (1828) IV. 106 I am not bound always to look you in the face like children, to see if you have a penny in your forehead.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §15. 324 We may hope better of their Abilities than to be wheedled as Children with a Penny in the Forehead.
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