I have now decided to look at famous phrases that include the word 'three' I can look at their meaning origin and background. Here are an initial few I managed to come up with;
- Three is a charmer
- - three sheets to the wind
- - in three shakes of a lamb's tail
- - two out of three ain't bad
- - three to get ready and four to go
- - three strikes and you're out
- - kill three birds with one stone
- - two's company, three's a crowd
- - like a three ring circus