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turn up like a bad penny

Idioms  
  1. see turn up, def. 3.


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Whenever we miss you we shall know that, sooner or later, you will turn up, like a bad penny.

From Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti by Walter Paget

However, I'm not bothered about him, for he comes and goes just as he pleases, and when he gets good and ready he'll turn up, like a bad penny.

From The Fifth String by John Philip Sousa

You won’t be cross if I turn up like a bad penny?

From An Unknown Lover by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

Pierce remembered Hilda's prophecy that her indigent husband would turn up, like a bad penny.

From The Winds of Chance by Rex Ellingwood Beach

You always turn up like a bad penny....

From The Riddle of the Frozen Flame by Walter De Maris

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