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  • Any old iron, any old iron, Anyany old old iron? You look neat Talk about a treat, You look dapper from your napper to your feet. Dressed in style, brand new tile, And your father's old green tie on, But I wouldn't give you tuppence for your old watch chain; Old iron, old iron?

    - Charles Collins
      'Any Old Iron' (with E  A Sheppard and Fred Terry). The second line is commonly rendered'Any any any old iron?'.

  • The English, the English, the English are best! I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest!

    - Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop Flanagan
      'Song of Patriotic Prejudice'.

  • Feed the Birds,Tuppence a Bag! Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag!

    - P(amela) L(yndon) Travers
      Mary Poppins, ch.7.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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