in twos and threes

Meaning

1. two or three at a time; in small numbers

   People arrived in twos and threes.

In the movies · 353

• Avoid strangers. Walk in twos and threes.Scream1996
• and two and three.The Grand Budapest Hotel2014
• Two, two, three. Two, two, three.Whiplash2014
• One, two. Two, three.This Is the End2013
• Two. NOAH: Three!The Notebook2004
• For a year or two. Or three.Oppenheimer2023
• maybe two maybe threeF92021
• - Two! Two! - Three! Three!Shrek2001

Learn it in full scenes

• This Is the End2013
  • Seth Picks Jay Up at LAX
  • Seth Talks Jay Into the Party
  • Franco Gives the House Tour
• Oppenheimer2023
  • Bohr Sends Oppenheimer to Göttingen
  • Strauss Offers Oppenheimer a Job
  • Rabi Meets Oppenheimer on a Train

From the same entry

• a day, moment, pound, or two
• fall between two stools
• in two
• it takes two to do
• not have two beans, brain cells, to rub together
• put two and two together
• that makes two of us
• two sides of the same coin
• be in two minds about doing
• in two shakes