| 单词 | for two pins |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfor two pins (d) Chiefly British. for two pins: at the slightest provocation, without compunction. ΚΠ 1794 Times 18 Sept. 3/1 I'll blow you up for a sodomite, for two pins. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. xvii. 294 For two pins I'd go thither in all their teeth. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream xiv. 157 For two pins I'd put a match in every gunyah on the place. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) ii. 37 For two pins I'd tell him where to go. 1995 J. Collins Booing Bishop 36 For two pins, she said, when our mother got home, she'd tell her The Truth about me. < as lemmas |
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