put in your two cents
give your opinion
TRANSLATION
put in your two cents = seinen Senf dazu geben, seine Meinung äußern --- GOOGLE INDEX put in your two cents: approximately 1,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
2,200 New Yorkers lined up for hours yesterday outside City Hall to see Mayor David N. Dinkins and PUT IN THEIR TWO CENTS about how the city isn't working or could work better.
(New York Times)
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Daily Show host Jon Stewart PUT IN HIS TWO CENTS on the alleged racist comments made by LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
(Fashion Times)
(New York Times)
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Daily Show host Jon Stewart PUT IN HIS TWO CENTS on the alleged racist comments made by LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
(Fashion Times)
Did you
know?
put in your two cents
idiom
- your spoken opinion on a particular matter
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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There is speculation that this expression is as old as the Bible. In the Gospel of Mark, several wealthy temple patrons donate large sums of money, but an extremely poor widow places just two small coins into the offering. Jesus finds greater favour with her than with the wealthy patrons, seeing that the widow gave all of her money while the wealthy patrons had much money left over for themselves.
While an interesting story, it probably does not explain the origin of the expression "two cents" since there was no such thing as cents back then. Another theory suggests that the phrase comes from betting during card games like poker, since players are required to first put money in the pot, or the ante as it also called.
The word cent stems of course from the Latin centum, or hundred. In Middle English cent referred to one hundred, but the meaning later shifted to "one part of a hundred." In the UK people typically say penny instead of cent (That's my two pennies' worth). The "cents" version is an Americanism and is often heard expressed as "two cents' worth." It's also frequently found in Internet forums where it is used to end a posting, such as "just my two cents."
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SYNONYMS
assessment, belief, input, judgment, opinion, view, viewpoint
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"We'd like everyone to put in their two cents about the new website design."
idiom
- your spoken opinion on a particular matter
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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There is speculation that this expression is as old as the Bible. In the Gospel of Mark, several wealthy temple patrons donate large sums of money, but an extremely poor widow places just two small coins into the offering. Jesus finds greater favour with her than with the wealthy patrons, seeing that the widow gave all of her money while the wealthy patrons had much money left over for themselves.
While an interesting story, it probably does not explain the origin of the expression "two cents" since there was no such thing as cents back then. Another theory suggests that the phrase comes from betting during card games like poker, since players are required to first put money in the pot, or the ante as it also called.
The word cent stems of course from the Latin centum, or hundred. In Middle English cent referred to one hundred, but the meaning later shifted to "one part of a hundred." In the UK people typically say penny instead of cent (That's my two pennies' worth). The "cents" version is an Americanism and is often heard expressed as "two cents' worth." It's also frequently found in Internet forums where it is used to end a posting, such as "just my two cents."
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SYNONYMS
assessment, belief, input, judgment, opinion, view, viewpoint
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"We'd like everyone to put in their two cents about the new website design."
