- a very small amount (in the past, an amount that could be bought for a halfpenny)
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Idioms
spoil the ship for a ha’p’orth/ha’pennyworth of tar
- (saying) to cause something good to fail because you did not spend a small but necessary amount of money or time on a small but essential part of it
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