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Brewer's: Nice as Ninepence
A corruption of “Nice as nine-pins.” In the game of nine-pins, the “men” are set in three rows with the utmost exactitude or nicety. Nine-pence is an Irish shilling of 1561. (See Ninepence.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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