Meanings
In pre-decimal English money, a sixpence was worth half a shilling.
To look very disappointed.
A-Z Proximities
- long since
- long story short
- long time
- long time no hear
- long time no see
- look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
- look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence
- look before one leaps
- look down on
- look down one's nose
- look down upon