Timeline for two-fifty will get you on the E train
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| Jun 29, 2020 at 16:18 | comment | added | Davo | It's the same as "that and $1 will get you a cup of coffee". | |
| Jun 27, 2020 at 23:20 | comment | added | Fattie | @Zhang its so commonplace you can find it in every idiom/phrase reference yourdictionary.com/… | |
| Jun 27, 2020 at 21:15 | comment | added | Fattie | @Zhang - this is a common joke in English. It is idomatic. | |
| Jun 27, 2020 at 21:14 | answer | added | Fattie | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jun 27, 2020 at 17:59 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 27, 2020 at 13:54 | comment | added | James K | I've certainly heard something like this "in the wild". There was a question about "repairing and reformatting a broken SD card" and the advice was "with your broken card and $8 you can get a new card on amazon" (or something similar) | |
| Jun 27, 2020 at 12:32 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | That's as may be. But as an expression I don't suppose it's got any meaningful "currency". Indeed, for all I know, James's flippant off-the-cuff alternative With what you've got and 99p you can get a burger at MacDonalds might actually have been said more often in the real world (regardless of the fact that James himdself might never have encountered it; he just "reinvented the wheel" because it was an obvious thing to come up with in context). | |
| Jun 27, 2020 at 11:56 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 27, 2020 at 11:54 | comment | added | Zhang | @FumbleFingersReinstateMonica, and the most important implication -- what he has + $2.50 = a train ticket -- it's a kind of expression I've never thought of. | |
| Jun 27, 2020 at 11:51 | comment | added | Zhang | @FumbleFingersReinstateMonica, actually no. If it didn't James K, I wouldn't know two-fifty is $2.50. I had thought it maybe refers to money, but I thought it's $1.00. | |
| Jun 27, 2020 at 11:34 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I’m voting to close this question because it's nothing to do with the English language as such - it's just a matter of understanding sarcasm and the local public transport context. | |
| Jun 27, 2020 at 11:23 | vote | accept | Zhang | ||
| Jun 27, 2020 at 10:34 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2020 at 10:29 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 27, 2020 at 9:59 | history | asked | Zhang | CC BY-SA 4.0 |