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Two-by-four

noun

A timber measuring (slightly under) 2 inches by 4 inches in cross section.

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"Two-by-four" Quotes from Famous Books

... replied the other, in the same confidential tone. "It ain't no two-by-four campaign. All I got to say to you boys is: 'Foller yer leader'—and you'll wear ...

— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington

... he said. "I care nothing for your two-by-four conspiracies and intrigues. But, I repeat, I'm glad I caught both of you together. It enables me to tell, in the same breath, what I think of both of you, and I am very anxious to tell you, fully and completely, for I suppose you have been surrounded all ...

— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson

... to that effect,—as he slammed open the door of our compartment, and the train slowed down and at length stopped in front of a dinky little two-by-four station, with a cluster of worm-eaten old houses and a couple of sloppy-looking store buildings near it that looked as if they had all been erected prior to the Norman Conquest, or even possibly antedated the ...

— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry