two bob

alternative two-bob

1. AustraliaUKobsoleteuncountableTwo shillings; a florin.
2. AustraliaslanguncountableA 20-cent coin.
3. AustraliaUKattributiveidiomaticoftenuncountableA trivially small value.

   Judging from the spectrum and the brightness Dr Stickland “wouldn′t give two bob either way”.

   1975 September 4, “Monitor: Nova Honda brightens the night sky”, in New Scientist, page 515

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   Less flashy in its post-modernism than the MI6 building, more sober in its brick-framed glass curtain walling, Sally Malone would have pointed out that this was the two-bob side of the block, as against the half-crown riverbank site of the other building.

   1999, Barry Maitland, The Chalon Heads: A Kathy and Brock Mystery, page 181