Citations:tuppence worth

Noun: "worth two pennies"

 * 1848, The Rural Repository, "'Paternizing' a Landlord", vol. 24, no. 22, p. 174:
 * Wal, take my horse under the apple tree yonder, and give him tuppence worth of hay; take off his saddle and rub him down, and don't give him any water, cos I set great store by him.
 * 1879, Franc Bangs Wilkie, Sketches Beyond the Sea, "Letter IX", Hazlitt & Reed, p. 56:
 * When a shop-keeper, of whom you have purchased tuppence worth of something, and have taken up half an hour of his time, bows you out, and says, "Thank you! thank you very much!" and does it all with an air of deferential regard, you cannot help feeling that this volume of thanks comes from no deeper source than his lips;
 * 1907, Phil May, Mr. Punch's Life in London, The Educational Book Co. Ltd., p. 15:
 * Please, sir, tuppence worth of butter scrapin's, an' mother says be sure they're all clean, 'cause she's expectin' company.
 * 1943, Thomas S. Matthews, Princeton Alumni Weekly "London is Peaceful", vol. 44, p. 7:
 * A shilling and tuppence worth of meat may not be much meat, but for many a family in England, especially in what used to be known as the depressed areas, it is a shilling and tuppence worth more than they had before.
 * 1993, Gerry Adams, Falls Memories, Rowman & Littlefield, p. 124:
 * He was an Irish speaker and reputedly a competent organist from County Armagh, and Maggie and he often shared tuppence-worth of chips in Malachy Morgan's

Noun: "opinions or thoughts"

 * 1945, Ruth Peabody Harndew, Bright Star Or Dark, McGraw-Hill Book Companuy, Inc., p. 17:
 * Everyone you meet will talk to you about the Irish, so I may as well put in my tuppence-worth.
 * 1965, Denis Donoghue, On the Shoulders of Giants, "Afterword", University of Chicago Press, p. 296:
 * Talking thus of uselessness, I now add my own tuppence-worth, on five matters worthy of note in this context and probably in no other
 * 1977, David J. ("Walrus") Mann WA6MHD, 73, "The I/O Debate" (Letters section), vol., p. 22:
 * I wish to add my tuppence worth along with WN2DYU and W5G0S, I feel chat there has been too much emphasis on computer articles and also articles which assume the wealth of the amateur reading the article.
 * 1986, Jon Darius, "We're just wild about Halley", New Scientist, vol. 110, no. 1507, p. 56:
 * Radio coverage of the event sounded more like an election report than anything else, with tuppence worth of speculation from each forecaster.
 * 1993, Bernard Cornwell, Crackdown, Penguin:
 * "So remember the hell," I said, as though I really could help her with my tuppence worth of cheerful encouragement, "and perhaps that will stop you ever going back to it!"
 * 2007, Mike Parker, Neighbours From Hell, Y Lolfa, p. 15:
 * The strangest aspect of this widespread distaste for all things Cymreig is how broad-based it is. Even those who would sooner lop off a limb than admit to being racist are more than happy to pitch in with their tuppence-worth.
 * 2008, Neil Mackay, War on Truth, Casemate, p. 96:
 * It wasn't just me listening to spooks giving their tuppence worth on the folly of the planned invasion, there were at least three other senior members of staff getting regular briefings from within the 'intelligence community' about the misuse and abuse of intelligence as well.

Noun: "small amount"

 * 1901, Robert William Chambers, Cardigan, A. L. Burt, p. 115:
 * "You do not know the colonists, Mr. Butler," he said. "What marvel then that my Lord North should misunderstand them, and think to buy their loyalty with tuppence worth o' tea?
 * 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, p. 221:
 * Matthew Arnold was a critic and writer who, having secured a tuppence worth of success through being the son of his father, and thus securing the speaker's eye, finally got an oratorical bee in his bonnet and went a-barnstorming.
 * 1925, Ralph Delahaye Paine, Roads of Adventure, Houghton Mifflin, p. 286:
 * There was not a tuppence worth of sympathy or humanity in this starched young diplomat, so I thanked him and gently faded out, twirling the bamboo cane.
 * 1956, Parliamentary Debates, Parliament of New Zealand, vol. 308, p. 268:
 * In that case, whether we have a population of two million, three million, or thirteen million will not make tuppence worth of difference if the great sources of power in the West—the United States and Britain—are defeated.
 * 1996, Steve Bruce, Fundamentalisms and the State, "Fundamentalism, Ethnicity, and Enclave", University of Chicago Press, p. 54:
 * Regarding the civil rights movement as the old Irish republicanism wolf in democratic sheep's clothing, working-class Protestants attacked civil rights marches and Catholic areas. Catholics hit back.  The local police could not control the violence (and indeed added their own tuppence worth). The government had to ask for British troops to be sent in to Belfast and Londonderry to keep the sides apart.