Another use of 'tuppence' -- in olden days the London pay toilets cost one penny... so if you had to go #1 you needed to 'spend a penny'...
-- so if you had to go #2, you needed to 'spend tuppence'.
I'm serious. That was my mother's polite euphemism for it and as a child I thought that was the real word for it.
I'm serious. That was my mother's polite euphemism for it and as a child I thought that was the real word for it.
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