This is just an imaginative way of saying that something is expensive - it's not just worth a penny, the penny has to be pretty on top of it!
To say something costs a 'pretty penny' is to mean the item is expensive
It means to be expensive or to cost alot. For example: My dress cost a pretty penny.
The words are spelled PRETTY PENNY. A pretty penny would be nice and shiny. For some reason, the phrase has come to mean something that is very costly, "worth a pretty penny."
Pretty Penny was created in 1995.
The cast of Pretty Penny - 2001 includes: Shane Luther as Chris Kestie Morassi as Penny
The phrase means that something is very expensive. The origin comes from a gold penny that was minted in the 1200's that was worth 20 silver pennies. Because it was gold, it was a pretty penny, and if it cost a pretty penny, it was expensive indeed.
If you mean DS for DSi, it would probably reduce the cost but the DSi costs a pretty penny!
A penny... turns up like a bad penny.A penny saved is a penny earnedA penny for your thoughts.A penny's cheap for what you need, for what you don't, it's dear (expensive)That costs a pretty penny
The cast of A Pretty Penny - 2008 includes: Max Cullen as Roy Firth Chris Haywood as Jack
if you earn a penny and you save it
We the People With Gloria Allred - 2011 Shipping Wars Pretty Car Pretty Penny 1-190 was released on: USA: 2012
buy one. although, they are a pretty penny.