bent as a nine-bob note
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bent as a nine-bob note
Where it comes from
In pre-decimal English money, a nine-bob (nine-shilling) note would obviously be fraudulent, since there was no such denomination.
adjective
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Extremely dishonest or criminally-minded.
Similar: bent as a butcher's hook
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Ostentatiously homosexual.
Similar: queer as a coot
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