two /tuː/ number
[Language: Old English; Origin: twa]

1. the number 2:
I’ll be away for almost two weeks.
We have to be there by two (=two o'clock).
His family moved to Australia when he was two (=two years old).

2. in twos in groups of two people or things:
I’d like you to line up in twos, please. ⇒ twosome

3. put two and two together to guess the meaning of something you have heard or seen:
I saw him leaving her house and I put two and two together.

4. that makes two of us spoken used to tell someone that you are in the same situation and feel the same way:
‘But I don’t know anything about children!’ ‘Well, that makes two of us.’

5. two can play at that game spoken used to tell someone that they will not have an advantage over you by doing something because you can do it too

6. a year/a week/a moment/an hour etc or two spoken one or a few years, weeks etc

7. two sides of the same coin used to talk about two ways of looking at the same situation

8. two heads are better than one used to say that two people are more likely to solve a problem or think of an idea than one person working alone

9. be in two minds (about something) British English, be of two minds (about something) American English to be unable to decide what to do, or what you think about something:
I was in two minds about whether to go with him.

10. two cents (worth) American English informal your opinion or what you want to say about a subject:
Everyone had to put in their two cents worth.

11. two’s company, three’s a crowd used to say that it is better to leave two people alone to spend time with each other
⇒ don’t care two hoots at hoot¹(5), ⇒ two/three etc of a kind at kind¹(5), ⇒ be two/ten a penny at penny(11), ⇒ in ones and twos at one¹(3), ⇒ it takes two to tango at tango²(2), ⇒ kill two birds with one stone at kill¹(13), ⇒ no two ways about it at way¹(54), ⇒ fall between two stools at fall¹(32)

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two
tu:
See: between the devil and the deep blue sea or between two fires , two cents , bird in the hand is worth two in the bush , cut both ways or cut two ways , have two strikes against one , in two , kill two birds with one stone , no two ways about it , put two and two together , stand on one's own feet or stand on one's own two feet , tell a thing or two , thing or two

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