All my life I've said, 'See a pin and pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck' as taught to me by my grandmother. This idiom is first recorded by Samuel Pepys in 1667 as 'an old proverb' -- and the number of people who say, 'See a PENNY...' is phenominal. It irritates me every time I hear it.
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