| Value engineering is a slippery word for reducing the specification. We do not want to spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar. |
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| Her mind drifting as pages of tedium detailed every last ha'p'orth of her father's wealth. |
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| He generally buys two pennyworth of beef soup, with a ha'p'orth of potatoes. |
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| Most of my meals were a ha'p'orth of chips from the fish and chip shop in Brick Lane. |
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| As we were driving up it became clear that we had not had a ha'p'orth of snow compared to up there. |
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| Feeling for his girlfriend, that daft ha'p'orth Steve has a plan to cheer her up. |
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| Haggling over advisors' fees looked like a horrible case of spoiling the ship for the sake of a ha'p'orth of tar. |
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| What is so dangerous that our oldest statutes could be upended for such a ha'p'orth of momentary panic? |
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| Like a disreputable character who wins a libel action on a technicality, he should be given a ha'p'orth of damages, if any. |
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| If the House of Commons are absolutely determined to do this foolish thing, then what the Prime Minister says will not make a ha'p'orth of difference. |
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| I reckon that at least 30 new modern bins, strategically placed, are needed to avoid future complaints. Come on council, don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar! |
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| A ha'p'orth of bread and a ha'p'orth of butter made a royal feast. |
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