Meanings
- AustraliaUKidiomaticReadily, with only the slightest encouragement.
For two pins he really would slap a glove in each of their faces.
2010, Mary Balogh, Seducing An Angel, →ISBN3 more examples
‘I tell you what, me fine feller, you’re skatin’ very close to the law, taking your eighteenpence per head and not providin’ food as per contract, and for two pins I’d have you up for it.’
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 83He doesn't, but he's a man with an eye in his head, and he knows what we are, a boneless lot without organization. I say it myself, I said it only last night in this here bar, and I say it again, for two pins I'd chuck my party. I would so.
2009, H. DeVere Stacpoole, The Man Who Lost Himself, →ISBN, page 202But for two pins I'd hand in blank papers and tell school where to shove Pythagoras triangles and Lord of the Flies and their life cycles of worms.
2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 4
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