two bob

Noun

Australia UK obsolete uncountable slang attributive idiomatic often

Japanese Meaning

（英国・オーストラリアの古い表現）2シリング、フローリンに相当する金額 / （オーストラリアのスラング）20セント硬貨 / （英国・オーストラリアの慣用表現、形容詞的に用いられることもある）取るに足らない、わずかな価値

What is this buttons?

I found an old coin worth two bob in my grandfather's desk.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

祖父の机で2シリングの古い硬貨を見つけた。

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Sense（1）

(UK, Australia, obsolete) Two shillings; a florin.

Sense（2）

(Australia, slang) A 20-cent coin.

Sense（3）

(idiomatic, UK, Australia, often attributive) A trivially small value.

Less flashy in its post-modernism than the MI6 building, more sober in its brick-framed glass curtain walling, Sally Malone would have pointed out that this was the two-bob side of the block, as against the half-crown riverbank site of the other building.

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