---- Tamara P Duvall <[email protected]> wrote: 
Don't know the origin but, the way I've always heard/seen ithe phrase used, 
meant "without much encouragement" or "for a small price". It's always used in 
the same way: "for two pins, I'd... (do something or other)". Must have been 
invented once the pins were factory made and no longer expensive :)


Perhaps it started as "two pennies", then.  In the US we have the phrase "for 
two cents, I'd...." which has the same meaning.

Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
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