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June 16, 2022, 7:41pm
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Assuming you aren’t just having a laugh and actually want to know, my understanding is that it’s an English idiom used to describe a condition of confusion or disarray .
I first learned the phrase from the Rolling Stones’ song Tumbling Dice, although they also added ‘nines’ to the phrase, which seems to be a Stones invention…?
This could be a Cafe Society question (apologies – please move if appropriate) because it deals with a song lyric, but it might also be a general phrase and I’m trying to find its meaning. The song is The Rolling Stones’ “Tumblin’ Dice” and there’s a passage that goes:
“Honey, got no money, I’m all sixes and sevens and nines.”
What do the sixes, sevens and nines represent? The song has a strong gambling theme, but I can’t figure the correlation. Are they rolls of the dice? What significance …