two-bit

• “Getty Images Jay-Z enjoying his carnival This was no two-bit carnival you might have had at your high school with a few beanbags, some class clown and a dunk tank.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Jay-Z's Big Hit: a Carnival

• “When was this upgraded to two-bit? one maybe one and a half at a stretch.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » This way ladies, if you would care to follow me.

• “Who wants to see their religious traditions disrespected by foreigners strolling about and taking pictures as if the congregants were morons to be fodder for their two-bit family slide show back in Dubuque?”

  Any Chiapas backroad driving experts?

• “In other words, you could probably move on and avoid your past, like you couldn't do if you were a two-bit historical figure with a name like, say, Robert Bork.”

  The Huffington Post: Jason Salzman: Heck-of-a-Job Brownie Blames Katrina Victims

• “Its "Interagency Task Force" against lending fraud with a lot of fanfare, for example, it turned out to be vaporware, a small-time operation that targeted two-bit grifters and petty crime rings but avoided any investigation of big-bank systemic fraud.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: The "Banker Gangs" Are Still On the Loose, and the Justice Department Still Won't Come Clean

• “I tell you, you leaning back in a big leather chair talkin 'treasure with a two-bit cigar in your mouth an' a twenty-cent drink beside you, why that's like treasure.”

  CHAPTER XVI

• “Especially top quality hamburgers and tequila, not some sort of rotgut tequila and two-bit hamburgers made with supermarket green meat.”

  General Lee Hamburgers and Tequila

• “If Garzon, two-bit hack politician, can somehow get the “international lawfare” apparatus to take him seriously and send him victims than any similarly situated partisan hack – of which there are undoubtedly thousands – can do likewise.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Baltazar Garzón Indicted

• “There is no place in the world for a two-bit minor hack like him to run around using the apparatus of international law to settle political disputes in whatever country he decides the leaders are against his beliefs.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Baltazar Garzón Indicted

• “Just about every member of the cast flirts with perfection, but the one who woos and wins it most spectacularly is Paddy Considine as the Tates' next-door neighbor, Graham, a two-bit New Age guru whom Oliver sees as a superstar instead of the fatuous peacock that he is.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Surprise: A Newly Exhilarating 'X-Men'

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