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look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence

look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence verb: to look annoyed or displeased.

Verb

look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence (third-person singular simple present looks as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence, present participle looking as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence, simple past and past participle looked as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To look annoyed or displeased.

look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence meaning in Bengali

look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence in Bengali

বিরক্ত, অসন্তুষ্ট দেখানো

Forms of look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence

third-person singular presentlooks as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence
present participlelooking as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence
past participlelooked as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
pastlooked as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence

Origin of look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence

A shilling was worth 12 pence, so this would represent a loss of money.

Questions about look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence

What does look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence mean?
Look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence means to look annoyed or displeased.
What is look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence in Bengali?
Look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence in Bengali is বিরক্ত, অসন্তুষ্ট দেখানো. See Look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence?
Look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence is a verb.
What is the past tense of look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence?
The past tense of look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence is looked as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence.

Words near look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence in the dictionary

  1. look and feel
  2. look and feels
  3. look around
  4. look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
  5. look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
  6. look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence
  7. look askance
  8. look at
  9. look at it this way
  10. look at me
  11. look at oneself in the mirror

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Adapted from Wiktionary: look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence (page history and authors); look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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