Name: English Tutor Nick P Proverbs (168) A Bad Penny Always Turns Up
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and  this is Proverbs 168 . The proverb today is a bad penny

Modal verbs - B1

always turns up. Okay . Let's take a look at the note here. You may hear this proverb

reworded as a or the bad penny always comes back. Okay. So you get hear it as the

bad, or  a bad penny always comes back or the bad penny always comes back or the bad

penny also turns up. So both of them could either take an "a"  or" the. "  All right . Let's

continue. This proverb basically means that an unpleasant unwanted or bad

person or thing usually will appear or come back,  especially at the most

inappropriate times or times when you kind of wish they didn't. All right. Let's

go. Let's continue here. The proverb dates back to the Middle Ages and even in

Roman times. Yeah .  I heard that in Roman times when they started to run out of you know,

money basically,  sometimes they were not putting all the right metal into,  into

the coins that they were supposed to be you know whether their value of whether they

were silver a gold or or or maybe you know copper or whatever it was that they

they were made out of. And then after some time they started to what we call

'coin clipping. " So let's continue there.  After a while some coins were considered

to be bad because they were debased by coin clipping. So basically even though

it says this amount of it a little piece of the coin was missing so it maybe

really didn't have the value that was supposed to be on it or the face value.

Small pieces or edges of coins were cut off and after you know after a long time

maybe they were collected and probably sold for scrap metal. You know,  after a

lot of these little pieces were collected they might have been sold for

scrap metal , so that somebody can make some extra money.  I guess. A bad penny by

itself can also refer to a worthless or disreputable person. Okay.

Let's continue.  All right. We have a couple of examples and I think these are both a/b

parts. So example number one.  I thought that annoying customer must have moved

away I didn't see him for a long time.  All right. That's what A said. And B said

you know , how it goes a bad penny will always show up. So they always come back

again. Or number two here.  I thought Jane didn't invite her

good-for-nothing ex-husband. Yeah . We often,  we often use that as like an adjective .

Somebody is a good for nothing. So yeah basically they're not a very productive

person or you know maybe they have a lot of bad qualities. To the wedding , and B

answers nobody invited him but it is not surprising he found out and came anyway.

A bad penny always turns up. Okay. So this is the way you may hear it used. Anyway,  I

hope you got it . I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time . Bye -bye.