Idiom
count to five
Meaning
Synonym of count to ten.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I count to five before I get angry.”
“When the children started shouting, the teacher told them to count to five and calm down.”
“She paused to count to five, deliberately steadying her breathing before she addressed the hostile crowd.”
Examples
simple
“I count to five before I get angry.”
contextual
“When the children started shouting, the teacher told them to count to five and calm down.”
complex
“She paused to count to five, deliberately steadying her breathing before she addressed the hostile crowd.”
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