cut off with a shilling

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

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Monika	MO-ni-kah (German), maw-NEE-kah (Polish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Benedykt	be-NE-dikt	Polish
Carlyn	-	English
Raijin	ṙah-ee-jeen (Japanese)	Far Eastern Mythology
Kathleen	['kæθli:n]
Alfred	AL-frəd (English), al-FRED (French), AHL-fret (German, Polish), AHL-frət (Dutch)	English, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Polish, Dutch