in for a penny, in for a pound

1. Once involved, one must not stop at half-measures. For example, All right, I'll drive you all the way there—in for a penny, in for a pound. This term originally meant that if one owes a penny one might as well owe a pound, and came into American use without changing the British monetary unit to dollar. [Late 1600s] For a synonym, see hanged for a sheep.

Example Sentences

His recording “In for a Penny, In for a Pound,” with Zooid, earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for music.

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A couple in California are in for a penny, in for a pound after finding what they estimate to be a million copper pennies in a basement.

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Subsequent sections in “The Other One,” like the track titled “Mvt I, Sections 6A-7A,” sound more like the Zooid recording of “In for a Penny, In for a Pound,” which won Threadgill his Pulitzer.

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“In for a penny, in for a pound” he added.

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“He was the one that was insisting that we should do it. But I was in for a penny, in for a pound.”

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