number
6
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IDIOMS
at sixes and sevens (informal) in confusion; not well organized:
I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.
hit / knock sb for six (BrE) to affect sb very deeply:
The business over the lawsuit had really knocked her for six.
it's six of one and half a dozen of the other used to say that there is not much real difference between two possible choices
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for six is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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