four

Related to four: Four Horsemen, foursquare, petit four
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  • $64 question
  • (a) quarter of (a given hour in time)
  • 10-4
  • 4 real
  • 404
  • 4-1-1
  • 420
  • 4-on-the-floor
  • a four-letter word
  • all fours
  • at the tender age of
  • be scattered to the four winds
  • between you and me
  • between you and me and the bedpost/gatepost/four walls/lamppost
  • between you me and the bedpost
  • between you, me, and these four walls
  • clue-by-four
  • fire on all four cylinders
  • four bits
  • four corners of the earth, the
  • Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  • four score and seven years ago
  • four seasons in one day
  • four sheets
  • four sheets in the wind
  • four sheets to the wind
  • four wheels
  • four-bagger
  • four-banger
  • four-bits
  • four-eyed
  • four-eyes
  • four-flusher
  • four-leaf clover
  • four-letter word
  • four-oh-four
  • four-one-one
  • four-topper
  • from all corners of the world
  • from all four corners of the world
  • from the four corners of the earth
  • gentleman of the four outs
  • get down on all fours
  • like cheese at four pence
  • on all fours
  • on all fours with
  • on all fours with (something)
  • quarter past (a given hour in time)
  • sixty-four-dollar question
  • sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, the
  • ten-four
  • the big (number)-o
  • the big Three, Four, etc.
  • the Big Three/Four/Five/etc.
  • the four corners of the earth
  • the four corners of the world
  • the Four Hundred
  • the sixty-four thousand dollar question
  • the sixty-four-dollar question
  • the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
  • there are only 24 hours in a day
  • these four walls
  • to the (four) wind(s)
  • to the four winds
  • twenty-four seven
  • twenty-four, seven
  • twenty-four/seven
  • two-by-four
References in classic literature
D'Artagnan had taken the precaution to set apart four trusses for his own use.
He then repaired to D'Artagnan, who, thanks to his four trusses of straw, was in the act of making up and tasting, by anticipation, the luxury of a bed so soft, so well stuffed at the head, so well covered at the foot, that it would have excited the envy of the king himself, if his majesty had not been fast asleep in his own.
Twenty Years After
Arrived at the bastion, the four friends turned round.
All the spectators returned him his salute, accompanying this courtesy with a loud hurrah which was audible to the four; after which all four disappeared in the bastion, whither Grimaud had preceded them.
Three Musketeers
SOCRATES: And the space of four feet is made from this half line?
And now tell me, is not this a line of two feet and that of four?
Meno
In the night he went to the lake, cast his nets, and on drawing them in found four fish, which were like the others, each of a different colour.
He then took them to the kitchen and shut himself up with the cook, who began to cook them as she had done the four others on the previous day.
Arabian Nights
While the bubbles were yet sparkling on the brim, the doctor's four guests snatched their glasses from the table, and swallowed the contents at a single gulp.
There, in fact, stood the four glasses, brimful of this wonderful water, the delicate spray of which, as it effervesced from the surface, resembled the tremulous glitter of diamonds.
From Twice Told Tales
"Because he is one of the four sworn booksellers of the university!" said the other.
Notre Dame de Paris
After four months of incredible suffering, their baggage having been pillaged, and their attendants beaten and slain, they arrived at Kazeh, a sort of central rendezvous for traders and caravans.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more arrows; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable.
Gullivers Travels
`But now you begin to see the object of my investigations into the geometry of Four Dimensions.
Time Machine
Then more than four citizens will be required; for the husbandman will not make his own plough or mattock, or other implements of agriculture, if they are to be good for anything.
Republic