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  • Out of the tail of my eye, I caught the slash of pink blouse and pink mouth, stockings with holes in them the size of two-bob bits, cheaply peroxided hair tumbling out of bent pins.

    Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

  • So you can shove your half-rent, two-bob sideshow of a comment up your arse, you mook.

    THE MUMMY 3: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • I refrained from the obvious rejoinder and, nodding, pulled a two-bob bit from my trousers.

    Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

  • What a travesty to applaud such a horribly vile scumbag from office. he is a war criminal, a valueless two-bob loser who has destroyed parliamentary democracy and left Britain one of the most hated countries in the world.

    BBC Cuts Away from Blair to Screen Unknown Tennis Players 2007

  • I am often put to work stacking pennies into piles of twelve, threepenny bits into piles of four, sixpences into twos, shillings into twenties, and florins, or two-bob bits, into tens.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

  • Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger is 'two-bob' says Tottenham coach Clive Allen after touchline bust-up Clive Allen, the Tottenham assistant first team coach, has described Arsène Wenger as "two-bob" after the north London derby descended into acrimony on the touchline and in the stands.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Jeremy Wilson 2011

  • Yet she also realises that in these austere days million-dollar looks should be achieved on two-bob budgets.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • "It's not too late to think about not going to a two-bob club like Everton, and staying with a club who have got a great future, like Leeds United."

    icLiverpool 2010

  • CONTROVERSIAL Leeds United chairman Ken Bates has been apparently caught on a YouTube video branding Everton a 'two-bob club.'

    icLiverpool 2010

  • Because this trip has worse connections than a two-bob psychic we leave tonight but are not actually going to get to Sunny Stornoway til Thursday morning.

    problemchildbride.com Blog wirepeach 2010

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