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SIX At sixes and sevens (Br inf) - неразбериха, путаница, беспорядок; в смятении, в растерянности In a state of confusion, muddle, disorder, disarray; in disagreement: We moved into the house last week, but I'm afraid everything is still at sixes and sevens. Common in the United Kingdom, it likely derives from a complicated dice game called "hazard". It is thought that the expression was originally "to set on cinq and six" (from the French numerals for five and six). These are the riskiest numbers to shoot for (to "set on"), and anyone who tried for them was considered careless or confused. The similar phrase "to set the world on six and seven", used by Geoffrey Chaucer, dates about the mid-1380's and seems from its context to mean "to hazard the world" or "to risk one's life". It is possible that an ancient dispute between two English companies has helped to popularize it. The two, which were founded in the same year, argued over sixth place in the order of precedence. After more than a century, in 1484 the then Lord Mayor of London decided that at the feast of Corpus Christi, the companies would swap between sixth and seventh and feast in each others' halls. Nowadays they alternate in precedence on an annual basis: The workers were at sixes and sevens after the company announced that it was going out of business. Be not worth sixpence - гроша ломаного не стоить Crooked sixpence - талисман (предмет, приносящий его обладателю счастье, удачу) (по распространённому в Англии суеверию, погнутый шестипенсовик приносит счастье его владельцу) Said to bring luck. 83