turn an honest penny en · VERB
Meanings
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To earn money by honest methods.
My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| turning an honest penny | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| turns an honest penny | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| turned an honest penny | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| turned an honest penny | Tense=Past | lexicographic |