Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Three-quarters or 3/4.

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Three-pair Back (Living up a).

Three R’s (The).

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.


Three-quarters or 3/4.

Rhyming slang for the neck. This certainly is a most ingenious perversion. “Three-quarters of a peck” rhymes with neck, so, in writing, an expert simply sets down 3/4. (See CHIVY.)	1

Three-pair Back (Living up a).

Three R’s (The).

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