"for two pins" meaning in English

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Adverb

Audio: en-au-for two pins.ogg
Head templates: {{head|en|adverb}} for two pins
  1. (British, idiomatic) Readily, with only the slightest encouragement. Tags: British, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-for_two_pins-en-adv-EDERXtgS Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "He doesn't, but he's a man with an eye in his head, and he knows what we are, a boneless lot without organization. I say it myself, I said it only last night in this here bar, and I say it again, for two pins I'd chuck my party. I would so.",
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          "ref": "2010, Mary Balogh, Seducing An Angel, →ISBN:",
          "text": "For two pins he really would slap a glove in each of their faces.",
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          "ref": "2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 4:",
          "text": "But for two pins I'd hand in blank papers and tell school where to shove Pythagoras triangles and Lord of the Flies and their life cycles of worms.",
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