for two cents
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The new Panthers encouraged the other prisoners, who cut crops for two cents an hour, to work more slowly.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017
I am going to release all of the transcripts of the speeches that I gave on Wall Street behind closed doors, not for $225,000, not for $2,000, not for two cents.
From Time • Apr. 14, 2016
What do you want for two cents a day?
From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2016
At 10, he bought copies of the Bayonne Times on the newsstands for a penny, hawked them in bars and restaurants for two cents.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The old mother filled it halfway up for two cents.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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