five-by-five
五比五,五对五,五五开,五五制
Definitions
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Slang: Facetious.
- : short and fat.
Examples
“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.
After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.
These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.