pitching pennies
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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If you tried pitching pennies onto your sloping coffee table, you’d have a hard time keeping them from sliding off, given its right-to-left slant and front-to-back cant.
From Golf Digest • Jun. 7, 2018
He was pitching pennies at six; by adolescence he was playing poker with workingmen beneath lampposts on Tenth Avenue.
From Time Magazine Archive
For lack of a study hall, students spend free periods lounging in the graffiti-smeared corridors, often whiling their time away pitching pennies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three idle newsmen were pitching pennies on the marble floor of a House Office Building hall outside the door of the Ways & Means Committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Him and his friends sitting on their bikes in front of the house, pitching pennies.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
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