Citations:2c

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English citations of 2c

two cents, [edit]

  • 1996, Kim Whitehead [M.DIV., PH.D.], The Feminist Poetry Movement, page 105:
    Jordan's response is to say something "about female silence : so to speak / these are my 2c on the subject" (13). She goes on to describe her own experience of rape []
  • 2000, Curtis C. Verschoor [CMA], editor, [article in] Strategic Finance, volume 81, issues 7-12, page 22:
    Readers' Input:
    Here are my 2c : I like the CPE requirement at 10 hours per year for full, regular members []
  • 1996 March 1, Jack Kerouac, Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1: 1940-1956, Penguin, →ISBN, page 382:
    I ought to throw my 2c in & explain why I can't talk to him - but I would say this, it was him stuck his head in my door in Ozone Park and outlined the reasons why we should be friends - now that he has the soul of a baboon clearly showing, []
not idiomatic 'two cents', just literal (current or former/nominal) currency value:
  • 1910, The Philatelic Gazette, page 50:
    His 2c "missionary" stamp was the gem of the exhibition and was pointed out as such to thousands of visitors for whose benefit a little label had been affixed, reading "Wert 28,000 Kronen."
  • 1921, Rosenbaum Review, page 1:
    ... your 2c per pound pre- diction on oats and corn and 4c on wheat , but everybody can be easily mistaken in times such as we have been having . With best wishes to you and your good work , I remain - R . H. Muzzy , President American []
  • 1924, Paper Trade Journal, page 24:
    ... your 2c a pound would have been stationery and fixed and your dollars and cents of expense climbing would have wiped out that 2c a pound very quickly and you would have had a loss as early as 1917 . " The principle of pricing paper on []