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cut off with a cent

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cut off with a cent

To be intentionally disinherited from a will by being bequeathed a single cent rather than left nothing at all. Primarily heard in US, South Africa. My father never liked that I gave up medicine to become a writer, and he cut me off with a cent when he died.

See also: cent, cut, off