bad penny

He hadn't been such a bad penny after all, it seemed.

You keep showing up like a bad penny, I said.

So he disappeared and turned up again like a bad penny.

You turn up like a bad penny every time there is evil about.

Bad pennies have a way of turning up, you know.

The old bill that bounced back like a bad penny.

She thought for a moment, and added, "What exactly is a bad penny anyway?"

What was the old saying about the bad penny?

Like bad pennies, or a case of the crabs that wouldn't go away.

Makes no difference what for, he's always doing the bad penny act.'

It would just turn up again in the vicinity of her patio like a bad penny.

But like a bad penny, the old ad has resurfaced.

Like a bad penny, the Continent's debt crisis keeps coming back.

Some of his would be among them, possibly even Bad Penny herself.

She seemed like a "bad penny", I mused to myself, always showing up when we didn't really want her about!

I had heard of bad pennies coming back to haunt someone, but this was ridiculous.

Knowing when this might happen and precisely what information may come back like a bad penny is impossible to predict.

What was that about bad pennies that keep on turning up?

'Why have you turned up again like the bad penny?'

First the man turns up everywhere in the Argus facility, like a bad penny.

Looks like a bad penny just turned up.

The bad penny has finally come around again.

"Like a bad penny," the tall brunette smiled back at her.

You are the original bad penny and it's all you will ever be worth."

Like the proverbial bad penny, Sam kept turning up.