This phrase is basically a proposal, and the speaker is offering to pay to hear the listener’s thoughts. It is an idiom, of course, and not meant literally so no real payment generally takes place. The idea, however, is that the person who says “a penny for your thoughts,” wants to know what the listener is thinking about and is showing interest.
It is also commonly used when someone seems to be deep in thought or troubled by an idea, as a polite way of giving the person an opportunity to express his or her ideas or concerns.
Another phrase similar to “penny for your thoughts” is offering “your two cents” after making a statement. Someone might give his or her opinion and then say, “that’s my two cents,” to indicate the value of his or her idea.
While, much like a penny, “two cents” is relatively low in value now, it would have been more valuable at one time and the expression is used in much the same way.
And that is my two cents for the day.
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Question of
Did you receive payment today?
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Yes
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No
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If yes, did you notice a lower amount?
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Yes
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No
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Yeah… I got my two cents alright… heheh.
I hope this is just temporary
I hope so too, trying to remain hopeful.
Thanks for these expressions, I did not know them, I love learning new phrases. I have received my first payment. That´s my two cents
Congrats on your first payment. 🙂
Thank you very much.
The good news is they told you we would get paid. They were straight forward about that.
Yes I am giving them credit for that.
Not today and not next month either, haha.
I am sorry. We keep going as long as we can.
I have not received the payment and I do not know when I will receive it if the value of the virilis drops so drastically.
I am sorry and it is unfortunate the amount keep dropping. Nothing from the site to explain. Oh well we have two choices right!
You are right. I don’t know what to do. I’ll see, I don’t want to make any early decisions.
I was impressed that in the payment made in November the value of 1 virus is 0.00087 and in today’s payment it is 0.00068. Significant decline.
Yes I was actually expecting to be honest.
Well Carol DM I always appreciate your two cents worth. I am very glad to have them.
Ha! Glad you threw the humor back to me. 🙂
I did notice it too. It’s too low that I didn’t teach the withdrawal threshold
It keeps going down each month.
It appears this year the viril value will improve towards the end of the year.
Because of the current economic situation.
I saw that in the polls but that doesn’t really matter to me. I prefer to know why there are no ads.