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At sixes and sevens: phrases with numbers – About Words – Cambridge Dictionaries Online blog

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by Liz Walter My last two posts have covered phrases containing the numbers one and two. Today I am going to look at phrases with some higher numbers. There are a lot of them, so I am just picking …

Mohd Khairil Majid/EyeEm/GettyImages by Liz Walter My last two posts have covered phrases containing the numbers one and two. Today I am going to look at phrases with some higher numbers. There are a lot of them, so I am just picking out some that I think will be generally useful, but as always, please feel free to suggest others in the comments. I’ll start with the phrase in the title of this post. If a person, place or situation is at sixes and sevens , it is in a state of confusion or disorganization. The American phrase a three-ring circus also describes a confused situation and emphasizes

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