" a pretty penny "

 [ "pretty penny" ]

1: a significant amount of money, or a high price on something

  * e.g.,  ... I bet he paid a pretty penny for that new porsche - even the gas for it costs a pretty penny 

 [ "pretty penny" ]

1: a sizeable amount of money

  * e.g.,  ... That vase would fetch a pretty penny. 

 [ "Pretty Penny Productions" ]

1: An Internet Web Site devoted to providing free movies to the public at large.

  * e.g.,  ... "Dag, boo. Pretty Penny Productions be kickin' out some phat vizideos!" 

 [ "Pretty Penny Productions" ]

2: Official PPP.C history from the Pretty Penny Productions web site:

 [ "Pretty Penny Productions" ]

3: "In 1887, a druggist and amateur pugilist named Walton P. F. McFlannory founded the institution that the world would come to know as Pretty Penny Productions. A modest immigrant living in Hoboken, New Jersey, he began with only one horse, a rickety cart and seven acres of medicinal tobacco plants. Over the next forty years, through American ingenuity and industry and good old- fashioned elbow-grease, he expanded his economic empire to include railroads, factories, printing presses, a burgeoning dirigible fabrication facility, and the finest cinematic production facility on the planet.

 [ "Pretty Penny Productions" ]

4: In the stock market crash of 1929, McFlannory was forced to divide and sell off all of his assets to venture capitalists and Orientals. He died a shattered broken man three years later from the cancer, but his legacy would live on.

 [ "Pretty Penny Productions" ]

5: Pretty Penny Productions, the once-magnificent empire of the silver screen, was reduced to producing educational films and softcore pornography for the next three quarters of a century. But then, in 1983, an enterprising young high school drop-out named Aaron Johnson purchased the rights to the company and ran it out of his garage. The rest, as they say, is history.

 [ "Pretty Penny Productions" ]

6: Today Mr. Johnson and his associates are well known entertainment magnates and captains of industry. Their celebrity echoes to every corner of the globe.

 [ "Pretty Penny Productions" ]

7: And to think that it all began with one fiery Scotsman and his magical dream."

 [ "pretty penny" ]

1: A person who is a 1 on the 1-10 hot scale but has a great personality.

  * e.g.,  ... Yeah Kayla is ugly but she's a pretty penny. 

 [ "Pretty penny not short of a daffodil" ]

1: Nice people who are very wealthy but are very friendly and not pretentious.

  * e.g.,  ... "They're on a serious pay packet but they're a pretty penny not short of a daffodil!"