meaning to be a bit flustered, where does the phrase.....

[janzman]

...'all at sixes and sevens' ...originate, many thanks.

[MarkRae]

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[bibblebub]

Brewers gives:

Spoken of things, it means in confusion; spoken of persons, it means in disagreement or hostility “Six, yea seven,” was a Hebrew phrase meaning an indefinite number, hence we read in Job (v. 19), “He [God] shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea in seven,” etc. What is indefinite is confused. Our modern phrase would be five or six things here, and five or six things there, but nothing in proper order.

Old Odcombs odness makes not thee uneven,
Nor carelessly set all at six and seven.

Taylor: Workes, ii. 71 (1630).

http://www.infoplease...ers/sixes-sevens.html

[NoMercy]

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