bright as a new penny

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   (metaphor) shining brightly

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Questions about bright as a new penny

What does bright as a new penny mean?

bright as a new penny means "(metaphor) shining brightly".

Is bright as a new penny a common word?

bright as a new penny is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.