two-bit | Idiomator

Meaning: ; (US,informal)Costing 25cents.Synonym:tuppenny-ha'penny(UK, Commonwealth)That was back in the days of thetwo-bitshave and haircut.; ; (US,idiomatic,slang)Insignificantorworthless.Synonyms:tuppenny-ha'penny(UK, Commonwealth),ten-centForget thattwo-bitshyster. Get yourself a real lawyer.1973,Lou Reed, “Oh, Jim”, inBerlin:All yourtwo-bitfriends / They're shootin' you up with pills2006, Noire[pseudonym],Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.:One World,Ballantine Books,→ISBN,page27:What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all thattwo-bitrobbing and stealing shit behind me.2011,Toby Keith, “Beers Ago”, inClancy's Tavern:I met a one look girl in atwo-bitbar.2021February 2, Katharine Murphy,The Guardian‎[1]:Serious times demand honesty and self-awareness from people in positions of authority and, at the end of the day, political parties giving succour to fringe views about life-and-death matters is a Faustian pact. This isn’t speculation, or a serve oftwo-bitpunditry to fuel the opinion cycle. This is the lesson of Donald Trump.; ; (quantum computing,of a logic gate)Acting on, and producing, twoqubits.

Examples:

EN: Well, we're not taking any two-bit bets tonight, Sport.
ES: No aceptamos apuestas de 3 centavos.
EN: Well, I'm not making any two-bit bets tonight.
ES: Esta noche, no haré apuestas de 3 centavos.
EN: He's gonna shoot a two-bit piece right out of that fellow's fingers.
ES: Acertará a una moneda entre los dedos.
EN: That was a two-bit cigar.
ES: Ése era un puro muy caro.
EN: I could almost see him handcuffed like a two-bit hood.
ES: - Temía que pasara algo. La Prefectura...
EN: Wouldn't believe it looking at this place that you fellows that own her were running a two-bit crap game in the back of a Santa Barbara shop less than three months ago.
ES: No te lo creerías mirando a este local. Los dos dueños jugaban a los dados en la barbería de Sam hace menos de tres meses.
EN: If they were running a two-bit crap game how did they get all this?
ES: Si jugaban a los dados, ¿cómo han conseguido todo esto?
EN: You and this two-bit dick—
ES: Tú y este polizonte...
EN: I'm gonna slap a two-bit cover charge on tomorrow, give the place a little class.
ES: Mañana, cobraré 50 centavos, y le daré distinción al lugar.
EN: Will you please stop throwin' that two-bit hoofer up to me?
ES: Deja de mencionarme a ese bailarín de segunda.
EN: A two-bit job and a...
ES: Un empleo de medio dólar y un consejo de guerra.
EN: Well, I'm sick of playing these two-bit towns.
ES: Sólo actuamos en pueblos.
EN: - Chicago isn't a two-bit town.
ES: - Chicago no lo es.
EN: Quit squawking about a two-bit tie, will you?
ES: No te quejes por esa mala corbata, ¿sí?
EN: A two-bit tie? I'll take...
ES: ¿Una mala corbata?

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