penny for your thoughts

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→ voir penny et thought « un centime pour tes pensées ».

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penny for your thoughts

  1. (Idiotisme) À quoi penses-tu ?
    • One day, as your ladyship was playing on the harpsichord to my master, Mr Jones was sitting in the next room, and methought he looked melancholy. La! says I, Mr Jones, what's the matter? a penny for your thoughts, says I. – Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, 1749, a Foundling, Book IV, chapter xiv.

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