a person's opinion: used dismissively or ironically: often in the phrase put in one's two cents
also two cents' worth
two cents
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Noun
- (idiomatic, colloquial) One's opinion or thoughts.
- That's just my two cents; you can believe what you like.
- (US, idiomatic, colloquial) A nearly worthless amount, alluding to placing a copper penny on each of the eyelids of a pauper's or slave's body before burial.
- That car won't last a week; it's not worth two cents.
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Two cents and two cents' worth have eclipsed the native two pennies' worth in England even though the cent is not a unit of currency there.
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