Meaning of two bob | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Two shillings; a florin.
   Australia, UK, obsolete, uncountable
2. A 20-cent coin.
   Australia, slang, uncountable
3. A trivially small value.
   Australia, UK, attributive, idiomatic, often, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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

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