This episode is included on the Image Entertainment Vol. Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) ( 1959) (USA) (TV) (original airing) ' A Penny for Your Thoughts ' is a song by R&B/disco group Tavares in 1982, originally recorded by Marion Jarvis in 1975.It was covered by Tavares and Eddie Lovette. Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (in association with) The song A Penny for Your Thoughts was written by Kenny Nolan and was first released by Marion Jarvis in 1975.Next on The Twilight Zone, " Twenty-Two". Bennett Cerf, who describes it as "an age-old horror tale whose origin is unknown." We've dressed it up in some hospital wrappings and enlisted the performance of Miss Barbara Nichols.
This is Room 22 and on the other side of its doors lies an adventure that is as fascinating as it is inexplicable. The first known use of it is by Sir Thomas More in A Treatyce upon the last thynges, circa 1535: In such wise yt not wtoute som note & reproch of suche vagaraunte mind, other folk sodainly say to them: a peny for your thought.
Poole, a human coin, on edge for a brief time - in the Twilight Zone." Preview for Next Week's Story 'A penny for your thoughts' is one of the few that is neither of the above but which is of the same vintage. "One time in a million, a coin will land on its edge, but all it takes to knock it over is a vagrant breeze, a vibration, or a slight blow. His mind-reading ability is gone, but he is a man changed for the better. Smithers a long-overdue vacation.Īfter work, as Hector returns home with Miss Turner, he inadvertently knocks the standing coin over. Bagby that he deserves to be accounts manager, but when the bank manager resists reason, Hector uses his knowledge of his boss's adultery to blackmail him into granting the promotion and into giving Mr. With Miss Turner's telepathic encouragement, Hector makes the case to Mr. Sykes has been arrested for gambling with company money. Bagby fires Hector, but reinstates him when he discovers that Mr. When Smithers proves to be innocent of the plan, he admits having fantasized for years about stealing money from the bank but would never go through with such a plan because he is too much a coward. Smithers, apparently planning to steal cash from the bank, and alerts Mr. Shortly afterwards, Hector hears an old, trusted employee, Mr.
Hector also "hears" the thoughts of Miss Turner, a co-worker who admires him from afar and wishes he would be more assertive, and decides to take her into his confidence and reveals his psychic abilities to her. Bagby, and thwarts the businessman's plans. Sykes, thinks about taking out a large loan to pay for a run at the horse track to win back money he has embezzled from his company. He first "hears" his boss thinking about a weekend affair he is planning with his mistress. He discovers that he is able to "hear" other people's thoughts, and is surprised to hear the things people are thinking around him. Hector Poole, a sensitive, insecure bank clerk, gains telepathic powers after tossing a coin that miraculously stands on its edge. Poole, a bright human coin - on his way to the bank." Episode Summary But in one freakish chance in a million, it'll land on its edge. What are the odds? Half the time it will come up heads, half the time tails. So, a penny for your thoughts? Let us know what you’re thinking and how this is helpful for your English learning process."Mr. In such wise yt not wtoute som note & reproch of suche vagaraunte mind, other folk sodainly say to them: a peny for your thought.Ī rough paraphrase of the above is “when people notice that someone appears disengaged and wish them to rejoin the conversation, they ask ‘a penny for your thoughts’.” SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. In 1535, Sir Thomas More wrote in A Treatyce upon the last thynges (‘Four Last Things’): said when you want to know what another person is thinking, usually because they have been quiet for a while. 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. James Rogers in the “The Dictionary of Clichés” says that the saying is from a time when the British penny was worth a significant sum. Looks like the phrase is at least 400 years old, and so getting a precise etymology may be hard. It is an invitation to a person who looks like they have something to say, but hesitant or lost in thought to express their ideas. The simplest meaning for “a penny for your thoughts” is: “What’s on your mind?” or “Tell me what you are thinking,” especially when someone looks pensive, or they haven’t said very much and have been quiet for a while about a specific topic. When you hear someone says that they would give you a penny for your thoughts, you might imagine yourself getting paid for your all the things that go through your head, and consequently, you would be rich! But that is why this is just an idiomatic expression.
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