"My two cents" ("my 2¢") and its longer version "put my two cents in" is an American and Australian idiomatic expression for offering one's opinion, taken from the original English idiom "to put in my two-penny worth" or "put my tuppence in". == Origin == The earliest reference to an analogue of "two cents/pence" appears in the lesson of the widow's mite from both the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Luke.
"My two cents" ("my 2¢") and its longer version "put my two cents in" is an American and Australian idiomatic expression for offering one's opinion, taken from the original English idiom "to put in my two-penny worth" or "put my tuppence in". == Origin == The earliest reference to an analogue of "two cents/pence" appears in the lesson of the widow's mite from both the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Luke.
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