“There came a lull in the conversation, and Brandon said, ‘Penny for your thoughts?'” ( The Tahlequah Daily Press) At the time this expression was invented, a penny was worth much more than it is now.
The phrase a penny for your thoughts goes back at least to 1522, when it was published in the work Four Last Things by Sir Thomas More: “As it often happeth that the very face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise that, not without some note and reproach of such vagrant mind, other folk suddenly say to them, ‘A penny for your thought.’” The phrase was surely known before this time, but was not popularized until it appeared in The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood, published in 1562. Lovers sometimes say a penny for your thoughts in order to move along a discussion when making plans for the future or simply when they are whispering endearments to each other. The phrase a penny for your thoughts is a gentle coaxing to hear your thoughts, a request rather than a demand. Someone says a penny for your thoughts when they want to know what you are thinking, usually when they have been waiting to hear what is on your mind and after a period of silence. We will examine the definition of the phrase a penny for your thoughts, where it came from and some examples of its use in sentences. A penny for your thoughts is an idiom that goes back hundreds of years.
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