Meaning of for two pins | Babel Free

Definitions

Readily, with only the slightest encouragement.

British, idiomatic

Examples

“He 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.”

“For two pins he really would slap a glove in each of their faces.”

“But 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.”

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