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cent Theme: MONEY n. one dollar. (Underworld.)One cent for one joint? Not bad.A cent for this thing?
cent noun a dollar US, 1957. ► like a cent worth of shaved icehumiliated, belittled TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1987
idiomcentget/put your two cents' worth in AmEAmE(also stick/ throw in your two cents' worth)to give your opinion about something, even if nobody has asked you for it or nobody wants you to give it:You know me, I always have to get my two cents' worth in.Thousands of workers lined up outside city hall on Monday to talk to the mayor and throw in their two cents' worth about how the city could work better.BrE = have your (two) pennyworth/penn'orthnot a/one red cent AmEAmEused in order to emphasize that you mean no money at all:The article went into the magazine, but I never had a contract, and I never billed them, and I never got a red cent for it.
cent n. one dollar. (Underworld.) One cent for one joint? Not bad. See:- (one's) two cents' worth
- a good five-cent cigar
- a/one hundred per cent
- a/one hundred percent
- cent
- cut off
- cut off with a cent
- cut off with(out) a shilling/cent
- dollars-and-cents
- feel like two cents
- for two cents
- give (one's) two cents
- give (one's) two cents' worth
- he wears a $10 hat on a five-cent head
- He wears a ten-dollar hat on a five-cent head
- not a red cent
- not have a penny to your name
- not have a red cent
- not one red cent
- not worth a damn
- not worth a dime
- not worth a red cent
- put (one's) two cents in
- put (one's) two cents' worth in
- put in (one's) two cents
- put in (one's) two cents' worth
- put in one's two cents
- put oar in
- red cent
- red cent, not worth/don't have a
- two cents
- two cents (worth), for/put in your
- your two cents' worth
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