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sixes noun a small drink of rum. Originally costing six cents TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1968. ► all the sixessixty-six. In Bingo, House or Tombola the formula 'all the' announces a double number UK, 1943
idiomsixesbe at sixes and sevensused in order to say that a situation is disorganized and confused, or that a group of people do not agree:Getting ready for the wedding, we were all at sixes and sevens, getting in each other's way.Please excuse the mess, I'm at sixes and sevens this morning.The characters in the book are at sixes and sevens with each other - they're always quarrelling and nothing ever gets resolved.
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See:- (a) quarter of (a given hour in time)
- 86
- at sixes and sevens
- at the tender age of
- be at sixes and sevens
- be hit for six
- be six feet under
- check (one's) six
- check your six
- deep six
- deep-six
- deep-six (someone or something)
- deep-six, to
- double six
- eighty-six
- get hit for six
- hit (one) for six
- hit on all six
- hit someone for six
- hit/knock somebody/something for six
- it's six of one and half a dozen of the other
- It's six of one, half a dozen of another
- Joe Schmoe
- Joe Six-Pack
- knock (one) for six
- knock someone for six
- on (one's) six
- on your six
- pick six
- quarter past (a given hour in time)
- six and two threes
- six bits
- six degrees of separation
- six feet under
- six in one, (and) half a dozen in the other
- six of one and half a dozen of the other
- six of one, (and) half a dozen of the other
- six of one, half a dozen of the other
- six of the best
- six ways from Sunday
- six ways to Sunday
- six-bits
- six-pack
- the deep six
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