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单词 two's company
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two's company
d. two's company, three's a crowd (also two's company, three's none) and variants. Later also shortened simply to two's company.
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1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i. at Compañía Compañía de dos compañía de Díos, the Company of two is God's Company... Compañía de tres, rovále res, a Company consisting of three is worth nothing.]
1829 Citizen July 372 Remember two is company, three none, for we cannot say all we wish before a third person.
1856 Home Jrnl. (N.Y.) 9 Feb. 2/7 ‘Two is company, three is a crowd’, is almost as true of travel as it is of conversation.
1865 London Society Aug. 192/2 As a third person singular in Flirtation Corner, where ‘two is company’, he hath not his equal.
1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve ix. 124Two's company and three's trumpery, my dear’.
1922 A. Barnett Man on Other Side vi. 135 Don't let me disturb you... Two's company and three's none, eh?
1988 M. Leigh High Hopes in Naked & Other Screenplays (1995) 231 Cyril: They're out of date, families; they ain't no use any more... Two's company—you know what I mean?
2001 Weekly World News 25 Dec. 12/4 Don't forget: Two's company, three's a crowd, especially in the bedroom.
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