two-to-one
English
Noun
two-to-one
- (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!
- 1819, Felix Mac Donough, The Hermit in London; or, Sketches of English Manners (page 182)
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary