How we use number six in a phrase?

People have been using a form of the phrase “sixes and sevens” since the 14th Century. Originally, it referred to carelessness or risk-taking, probably came from dice playing. In a game of dice, to bet on a roll of a five and a six was extremely risky and often foolish. Over time, the early phrase “to set on cinque and sice” was altered to “to set on six and seven,” and the meaning was broadened to denote not only genera carelessness but the confusion and disorder that might result from it. Later it was further altered to the modern “at sixes and sevens” with the meaning “in a state of disorder or confusion.”

“Six-pack” has referred to six bottles or cans packaged and sold together since the 1940s. In the 1990s, six-pack came to refer to a set of strong, well-defined abdominal muscles visible on a person’s body and looked like a “six-pack” of bottles of cans.

 

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