four-and-six-a-week

Updated: May 4, 2025

"Do we pay four-and-sixpence a week for this cottage, or don't we?" he demanded. "And always have done," said Mrs Machin. "I should like to see the landlord put it up," she added, formidably, as if to say: "I'd landlord him, if he tried to put my rent up!" "Well," said Denry, "here we are living in a four-and-six-a-week cottage, and do you know how much I'm making?

Arnold Bennett - The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns