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a thing or two

phrase

Definitions

  1. An unspecified amount

    • What are you doing today? —I have a thing or two to take care of.

  2. A considerable amount

    A considerable amount; a lot.

    • He's a good mechanic, and surely knows a thing or two about car engines.
    • I could tell you a thing or two about that new boyfriend of yours.
    • He [Winston Churchill] was born at Blenheim Palace, that Oxfordshire pile built for his ancestor John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, who also knew a thing or two about warfare.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for a thing or two. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA