{"id":12286,"date":"2009-03-12T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/at_sixes_and_sevens.html"},"modified":"2009-03-12T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T08:30:31","slug":"at_sixes_and_sevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2009\/03\/12\/at_sixes_and_sevens.html","title":{"rendered":"At sixes and sevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">To be in disorder.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is a nice phrase of somewhat obscure origins. Like most people, the only place I have ever heard this phrase used was in the song &quot;Don&#8217;t Cry For Me Argentina,&quot; with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou won&#8217;t believe me<br \/>\nAll you will see is a girl you once knew<br \/>\nAlthough she&#8217;s dressed up to the nines<br \/>\nAt sixes and sevens with you\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nDespite of its connection to Evita Per&oacute;n I still think of being &quot;at sixes and sevens&quot; as a youngster&#8217;s dilemma, in which a child learning to count reaches six for the first time and then tries to count to seven only to find that both hands are open. I know, of course, that this scenario has nothing to do with the actual meaning of the phrase but somehow I can&#8217;t shake it.<\/p>\n<p>I also imagine this phrase might pass through a love-letter, but that&#8217;s probably just wishful thinking that a bluestocking would direct such eloquent phrases at me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be in disorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3ca","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}