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1 într-o clipă / clipită
in the twinkle of an eye, in a twinklein a twinkling, in the twinkling of an eye, at a moment's / minute's noticein a tricein a (split) secondin a shake / a brace of shakesin two shakes of lamb's / duck's tailbefore you could say Jack Robinsonat the bitin the / a blowing of a matchin / înv. for a flashin (half) a jiffyin (half) a mo(ment)in a crackat the bitin (half) a tickin two ticksat one flingas quick as lightning / as thoughtbefore you know where you are. -
2 a-i lipsi o doagă
to have a screw / a tile / a slate loose / offto be wrong in the upper storyto be a / one button shortto be off one's base / chump / rockerto have a crackto have bats in one's / in belfry / rats in the atticto want two pence in the shillingto be not (quite) all thereto be a bit madto have taken leave of / to be out of one's sensesto have lost a buttonnot to have one's button onsl. to have got apartments to letsl. amer. to have a cylinder missing.
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two-bit — adj informal not at all good or important ▪ She s just a two bit movie star … Dictionary of contemporary English
two-bit — two′ bit adj. Informal. 1) sts costing 25 cents 2) sts inferior or unimportant; small time: a two bit actor[/ex] • Etymology: 1795–1805, amer … From formal English to slang
two-bit — ☆ two bit [to͞o′bit′ ] adj. [see BIT2, n. 2] 1. Informal worth or costing twenty five cents 2. Slang a) cheap; gaudy; tawdry b) mediocre, inferior, or insignificant … English World dictionary
two-bit — adjective INFORMAL not very good or not important … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
two-bit — [adj] cheap, worth very little base, catchpenny, cheesy, crappy*, cruddy, garbage, gaudy, inferior, junky*, lousy, no good, piddling, poor, ratty, rinky dink*, second rate, shoddy, sleazy, small time*, tatty, trashy, valueless, worthless; concept … New thesaurus
two-bit — ► ADJECTIVE N. Amer. informal ▪ insignificant, cheap, or worthless … English terms dictionary
two-bit — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective Etymology: two bits 1. : of the value of two bits a two bit cigar 2. : of small worth or importance : trifling, petty, small time … Useful english dictionary
two-bit — ADJ: ADJ n (disapproval) You use two bit to describe someone or something that you have no respect for or that you think is inferior. [AM, INFORMAL] two bits → see bit ...some two bit little dictator... That may be two bit psychology, but it s… … English dictionary
two-bit — mod. cheap; small time. □ Max is just a two bit pusher. I want Mr. Big. □ I’m tired of your two bit efforts to run this office … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
two-bit — /tooh bit /, adj. Slang. 1. costing twenty five cents. 2. inferior or unimportant; small time: a two bit actor. [1795 1805, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
two-bit — adjective Date: 1802 1. of the value of two bits 2. cheap or trivial of its kind ; petty, small time < a two bit chiseler > … New Collegiate Dictionary
