In cases like (17) the (implied) debt is referential, but the pennies to pay it off are not (yet).
Most of the staff of the technical universities and the research laboratories are now pensioners - and they work for pennies.
Nowadays, nobody misses shillings, pennies and ha'pennies; surely in thirty years, no one would miss bough, ache, or sew.
He is paying out a multiplicity of pennies, one to each worker.
If the pennies should add up to a thaler, this sum of money will be paid to the winner, and he will receive a silver medal.
Pennies were last minted in substantial quantities in 1949.
They counted the pennies on everything and did not mind the fact that people were at risk because of their abysmal policies.
Our business is to put pennies into begging bowls.
