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名詞

two-to-one

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) The pawnbroker's sign of three balls.
   • 1819, Felix Mac Donough, The Hermit in London; or, Sketches of English Manners (page 182)

     “A pawnbroker!” cried Dick, with a loud laugh; whereupon the two-to-one lady blushed up to the eyes and whispered to her friend, “How could they know us?”

   • 1877, John Diprose, New standard song book and reciter (page 194)

     A song I'm going to sing you, / And presently I'll bring you, / Where your conscience I hope won't sting you, / — At the sign of the Two-to-one!

参照

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary