cut off with a shilling

Idioms  

1. see cut off, def. 5.

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Example Sentences

This was but just, for they had both been enriched by what ought to have been the inheritance of the other sister, the mother of these children, who, having married Monsieur Zwengler contrary to the wishes of her parents, was cut off with a shilling.

From Project Gutenberg

If a young Englishman in London, instead of an old Frenchman in Paris, was to addict himself to such untimely recreations, he would probably be cut off with a shilling.

From Project Gutenberg

He died five years ago, as you may or may not know, and I own to feeling a trifle sold at being as I thought cut off with a shilling.

From Project Gutenberg

Only hint the propriety of cutting it off to your great-uncle or your grandfather, and you may rely on being cut off with a shilling yourself.

From Project Gutenberg

Cut off with a shilling by his long-suffering family, Ogilvy tried to make a go of a farm, finally lost it by foreclosure.

From Time Magazine Archive