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two-to-one en · NOUN

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  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) The pawnbroker's sign of three balls.
    • 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! 1877, John Diprose, New standard song book and reciter, page 194:
    • “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?” 1819, Felix Mac Donough, The Hermit in London; or, Sketches of English Manners, page 182: