What does it mean by "the penny drops" and how to use it?
Is it an old-fashioned idiom?
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If you have a hole in your pocket the penny drops a lot.
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Yes it is old fashioned. More examples:
I wondered where I had heard the song on the radio before and then the penny dropped! I actually had the CD.
It takes some students quite a while to understand algebra and then one day, the penny drops!
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It's still used today =]
When the penny drops, someone belatedly understands something that everyone else has long since understood.
Example - I sat and thought for a moment and then the penny dropped.
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