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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Six of one

Does the pronoun "one" stand for "dozen" in "six of one and half a dozen of the other"?
  

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No. The whole expression means that there is little difference between two things we are trying to choose between.

  • No.
  • The whole expression means that there is little difference between two things we are trying to choose between.
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No.

The whole expression means that there is little difference between two things we are trying to choose between.
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Incidentally, my wife says 'It's six and two threes'..

I hadn't heard it until we met, but apparently she is not alone: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/six_and_two_threes

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