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Vgv8 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

What are the digits the meaning of which are commonly known?

Subquestioning the answer to:

"What are the meaning of 82, 95, 99 in English?"

What are digits that are universally and commonly understood as bearing some additional meaning/sense?
I believe, everybody knows 666?
There are many US movies downplaying and its meaning and using it as known colloquialism.
  

Top answer

86, 69 ... hmm, that's all I know offhand. I don't know 666.

— Mister Micawber

  • 86, 69 ...
  • hmm, that's all I know offhand.
  • I don't know 666.
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86, 69... hmm, that's all I know offhand. I don't know 666.
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And what is the meaning of 69?????

You do not know a meaning of:
  • 1&2 in "kill 2 birds with 1 stone"?
  • 2 in "put 2 and 2 together", "2 can play that game"?
  • 4 in "on all fours"?
  • 6&12 in "6 of 1 and half of the other"?
  • 6 in "6th sense"?
  • 7&8 are luck(y) digits?
  • meaning of 5 is used in "Give me five!"
  • meaning of 1 in "all-in-
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All those numbers you have quoted have no ulterior meanings in themselves; they are simply numbers -- and there are an immense number of that sort of phrase. I thought you were looking for numbers with dictionary meanings. '86' is a verb meaning 'jettison'.
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Let me repeat my question:

What are the digits the meaning of which are commonly known?

It is in the title and the only question of my post
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Some people think that 13 is unlucky. So some hotels to not have a 13th floor and Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day. There is even a name for a person who has an irrational fear of the number 13. (triskaidekaphobia)

7 is often associated with luck - especially in dice games.

666 is the number of the devil (from
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