two's company

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two's company (three's a crowd)

something that you say when you think two people would prefer to be alone together than be with a third person They asked me to go to the cinema with them but two's company if you know what I mean.

See be ten a penny, in two shakes, be two sides of the same coin, kill two birds with one stone, cut both ways

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