subs. phr. (old).—1. A variant of RAP, STRAW, CURSE, TINKER’S CURSE (or DAMN), and many others. Tradition asserts that Wellington once said he did not care a TWOPENNY DAMN what became of the ashes of Napoleon Buonaparte.
2. (literary).—The Twopenny Damn = The St. James’s Gazette: on account of its strong language concerning Mr. Gladstone and the ‘latter-day Radicals.’
