From en.wiktionary.org:
[half-a-dozen]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Numeral
[en]
1. Six (6); often used approximatively .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1927 | author= F. E. Penny (see http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2416183A)
|chapter=5|title=Pulling the Strings (see
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16814587W) |passage=Anstruther laughed
good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out HALF A DOZEN intelligent maistries from
our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work
and when they are in the fields.”}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] six
**** Synonyms
- half dozen
**** Derived terms
- six of one, half a dozen of the other
**** Translations
[six]
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- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Malay: [ms]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
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