banker's dozen | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,uncommon)Eleven.1899,The Arena - Volume 21, page195:Not a low baker's dozen, you will perceive, but two highbanker's dozen!1960, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business,Small Business Problems in Food Distribution:There were 11 in number (a reference has been made to them as constituting abanker's dozen), representing the following organizations :1968,JOH, Journal of Housing - Volume 25, page432:It concludes with abanker's dozenof 11 items labeled "What to Read" — a well chosen list on the urban, technological disruption of man's life and the earth's biosphere.1981, David Black,The King of Fifth Avenue: the fortunes of August Belmont, page240:Caroline arranged to have appear at her concert abanker's dozen(eleven) of New York's most admired amateur and professional musicians, including the alluring divorcee Fanny Ronalds, who — it was rumored — was accomplished in arts more erotic than the one she would demonstrate that night.2009, Ben Bova,The Precipice,→ISBN:George counted eleven of them. Abanker's dozen, he said to himself.

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