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Afewminuteslate Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

What does he mean by "six" and "sixty"?

So with the three passengers shut up
in the narrow compass of one lumbering old mail coach;
they were mysteries to one another, as complete as if each
had been in his own coach and six, or his own coach and
sixty, with the breadth of a county between him and the
next.

SIX PERSONS, SIXTY PERSONS?
  

Top answer

Hi, 'A coach and six' means a coach pulled by six horses. I guess 'a coach and sixty' is just a hyperbolic form of the same idea. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, 'A coach and six' means a coach pulled by six horses.
  • I guess 'a coach and sixty' is just a hyperbolic form of the same idea.
  • Clive
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Hi,

'A coach and six' means a coach pulled by six horses.

I guess 'a coach and sixty' is just a hyperbolic form of the same idea.

Clive
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