Jim,

"Sixes and sevens" = confusion/confused...

I'm not sure of the origin of this phrase.

Hope this helps.

Mark W.
SPE.





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I'm reading a book by an Anglican minister and he uses a phrase
that I'm not familiar with.  I'm hoping that one of the English
(as in "from England") readers of this list can help me understand
it.

He refers to people as "being at sixes and sevens with themselves".
What does that mean?

Thanks for any illumination you can provide.

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