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I really have to argue on this point - and chuck in my own two-pennyworth.
Dirty Sexy Poverty juliette 2009
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I really have to argue on this point - and chuck in my own two-pennyworth.
Archive 2009-01-01 juliette 2009
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Inevitably, the First Minister could not help wading in with his two-pennyworth.
Council Tax 2004
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They were determined to have their two-pennyworth and they despatched their own exocet regardless.
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Next time ladies pass you, you'd better take your cigar out of your mouth or somebody'll destroy that two-pennyworth of tobacco for you.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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Infuse two-pennyworth of hay saffron (sold at all chemists ') in a gill of boiling water in a tea-cup for ten minutes; add a dessert-spoonful of brandy, and sugar to sweeten, and drink the tea hot.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli
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I generally have a pennyworth of ham, which certainly is tough, but very full of flavour; bread to the same value; a half share with Friponnet in two-pennyworth of wine, and a half-pennyworth of fried potatoes; thus spending in all threepence-halfpenny.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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So she did, and ate two doughnuts and two-pennyworth of crisps.
Laurels are Poison Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1942
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So she did, and ate two doughnuts and two-pennyworth of crisps.
Laurels are Poison Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1942
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Feathers for two-pennyworth of cider to celebrate the day.
Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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